Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mercy Health – Anderson Hospital's Internal Medicine Residency is a newly ACGME-accredited, community-based program at a 286-bed regional hospital in Cincinnati, built around a no-in-house-call block schedule, structured POCUS certification, and simulation-based training rather than a traditional tertiary-referral, subspecialty-heavy model. The program blends inpatient exposure with community and public health rotations (addiction medicine, occupational health, public health clinics) and offers support toward an MPH for interested residents, reflecting an outpatient/population-health orientation alongside standard IM training. Research is required at a baseline level (one research project and one QI project per resident) but is not positioned as a defining feature; the explicit career framing is toward hospitalist, primary care, or fellowship pathways, with emphasis on wellness, work-life balance, and collaborative rather than competitive culture. As a new program still building its identity and outcomes track record, it appears to value adaptable, low-ego team players over research-driven or highly subspecialized applicants.