Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program

Program Identity & Fit

Cleveland Clinic's Ob/Gyn residency is a quaternary-care, academically embedded program founded in 2012 and built from the ground up around resident education rather than service needs, distinguishing it through seven blocks of individually designed "tracking" time that residents use for research, global health, subspecialty immersion, procedural certification, or advocacy work. Training spans Main Campus (high-acuity, multi-state referral obstetric and gynecologic disease), and high-volume community sites Hillcrest and Fairview Hospitals (roughly 4,500-5,500 deliveries annually each), giving residents both complex quaternary pathology and bread-and-butter community obstetric volume. The department supports seven co-located subspecialty fellowships (gynecologic oncology, MFM, urogyn, MIGS, complex family planning, REI, hospitalist) with active NIH-funded and institutionally-backed research programs across each division, and an Ob/Gyn Hospitalist fellowship offering funded MBA/MPH training, signaling an institution that values scholarly productivity and subspecialty career preparation. The program appears to prize self-directed learners who can articulate and pursue individualized academic or clinical interests rather than following a fixed track.