University of Cincinnati Medical Center-College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

University of Cincinnati is a large academic internal medicine program built around medical education science itself, having served as one of 21 ACGME Educational Innovations Project sites and built its curriculum on patient-centered rounding, growth mindset, and improvement science rather than generic teaching. The clinical environment is safety-net and high-acuity, with a diverse, complex, often under-resourced patient population, and the award-winning Ambulatory Long Block replaces a fragmented clinic schedule with a true continuity-based primary care practice. Career preparation runs through structured Learning Pathways (Medical Education, Research, Quality Improvement/IMPACT, Acute Care, Global Health, Medical Community Advocates) plus a dedicated Physician-Scientist track and R38-StARR research-extension year, giving residents a formal "minor" alongside categorical training and a visible track record of graduates becoming medical educators and academic hospitalists. The program explicitly wants residents who are "more 'we' than 'me'," embrace vulnerability and feedback-driven growth over rank-based evaluation, and engage in self-directed improvement or advocacy work rather than passive rotation completion.