Nationwide Children's Hospital-Ohio State University Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an academic, subspecialty-driven Medical Genetics residency based at Nationwide Children's Hospital, a major freestanding pediatric quaternary-care center, with cross-institutional rotations at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (adult/cancer genetics) and Mount Carmel Health System (perinatal/prenatal genetics). Training spans multidisciplinary subspecialty clinics (cardiogenetics, craniofacial, cystic fibrosis, 22q, muscular dystrophy, Marfan, myelomeningocele) and integrates required graduate-level coursework at OSU, reflecting a structured academic curriculum rather than a purely clinical-service model. The program offers both a standard two-year categorical track and a combined four-year pediatrics/medical genetics pathway, plus an optional third research year and direct pipelines into biochemical genetics and clinical laboratory genetics/genomics fellowships, situating it within a research-rich institutional ecosystem anchored by the Abigail Wexner Research Institute and the Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine. The program appears to value residents who can move fluidly between clinical diagnostic reasoning and translational/laboratory genetics, given its emphasis on lab rotations, board eligibility across clinical and laboratory tracks, and institutional research infrastructure.