Oregon Health & Science University OHSU Health-Hillsboro Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based internal medicine residency at Hillsboro Medical Center, a 215-bed not-for-profit hospital in Hillsboro, Oregon operating as an OHSU partner, designed to train general internists for local and rural communities rather than a tertiary academic powerhouse. The program emphasizes hands-on general internal medicine with connections to OHSU academic resources, cross-campus mentorship explicitly geared toward hospital medicine and primary care career pathways, and customizable electives in geriatrics, migrant/community health, and rural inpatient and outpatient medicine. Real-world exposure to underserved populations, including seasonal agricultural workers and their families, is a defining clinical feature, and the program explicitly frames its mission around resilient general internists who collaborate with interprofessional teams to serve the community. Research is not central; scholarly activity (seen in the affiliated family medicine program) is local and applied rather than a driver of program identity.