Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV OB/GYN Program is a four-year university-affiliated residency built around a high-volume, high-acuity safety-net mission, with training spread across county (UMC), private (Sunrise), and federal (VA, Nellis Air Force Base) hospital systems serving approximately 5,000 deliveries annually across county, indigent, immigrant, military, and private populations. The program integrates maternal-fetal medicine, reproductive endocrinology, family planning, and OB/GYN-AIDS clinics into core training, and explicitly prepares graduates for competitive subspecialty fellowship while requiring a mentored scholarly project and resident research day presentation. Its multi-site military-civilian-academic structure and role training EM and family medicine residents alongside its own residents signals a program oriented toward broad clinical versatility and teaching responsibility, with residents expected to actively mentor medical students. The program frames itself as highly competitive and values applicants who thrive amid fast-paced, high-risk, collaborative care across a wide sociodemographic patient spectrum.