St David's Healthcare Graduate Medical Education Program

Program Identity & Fit

St David's Healthcare OB/GYN residency is a community-based, HCA-affiliated 4-year program built around a high-volume tertiary referral center in Austin with over 10,000 deliveries annually, giving residents broad exposure to complex obstetric and gynecologic pathology supported by MFM, gynecologic oncology, urogynecology, MIGS, and REI faculty. The curriculum explicitly targets three outcomes - private practice, academic medicine, and subspecialty fellowship - reflecting a program that does not funnel residents toward a single career path but builds broad clinical competence across all OB/GYN subspecialties. Scholarly activity is structurally supported through HCA's national research infrastructure (data from 30+ million annual patient encounters, dedicated research coordinators, and a "Family Planning/Research" and "Flex/Research" block built into PGY2-3 curriculum) rather than being investigator-driven or academically central. The program emphasizes resident well-being and autonomy through HCA's "Pathways to Flourishing" framework, and values patient-centered, community-oriented clinical care delivered with warmth and personal accountability.