MaineHealth Program

Program Identity & Fit

MaineHealth Maine Medical Center's OB/GYN residency is a university-affiliated community program built around its role as the sole tertiary referral hospital for the entire state of Maine, generating high-acuity volume across obstetrics, gynecologic oncology, and urogynecology while maintaining a strong general/generalist training identity. The four-year continuity clinic model (one day/week throughout training) is unusually robust, and the ambulatory curriculum is distinctive for its refugee/immigrant patient population (~45%, largely Somali, Congolese, Rwandan, Vietnamese) and dedicated family planning, reproductive endocrinology, and gender-affirming care exposures. Residents complete an independent research project and quality improvement work, but the program's emphasis is on broad surgical/clinical competency (including robotic and laparoscopic hysterectomy proficiency for all graduates) rather than research output, and it supports both fellowship-bound and community-practice-bound trainees with dedicated PGY3 elective time for either pathway. The program values generalist versatility, comfort with underserved and immigrant populations, and residents who thrive in a moderate-sized, community-embedded but academically-toned environment with a strong rural/Maine-service orientation.