Trinity Health Muskegon Program

Program Identity & Fit

Trinity Health Muskegon is a Catholic, community-based OB/GYN residency in a lakeshore West Michigan hospital that explicitly orients residents toward becoming generalist obstetrician-gynecologists in community practice, while preserving flexibility for those pursuing academic or subspecialty fellowship paths. The four-year curriculum is built around a dedicated OB High Risk Clinic co-managed with maternal fetal medicine specialists, a single-floor birth center model, and broad procedural exposure spanning open, vaginal, laparoscopic and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. Research is required but structured as a single fourth-year scholarly project supported by a dedicated research office, rather than a program-wide research identity. The resident body is entirely DO-trained, and the program culture, repeatedly emphasized in resident narratives, centers on close-knit camaraderie, faculty mentorship, and a mission-driven, faith-based commitment to underserved and socioeconomically diverse patients in Muskegon County.