University of Kansas Wichita Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-affiliated community-based OB-GYN program in Wichita, training residents primarily at Wesley Medical Center with additional exposure to rural care (Newton Medical Center) and an FQHC underserved clinic (Hunter Health Clinic), giving a mixed tertiary-community-safety-net footprint. Surgical volume is high relative to national norms, with resident case logs for cesarean deliveries, laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomy sitting near or above the 95th percentile nationally, indicating a heavily procedural training experience. Every resident must complete a mentored, publishable-quality research project alongside ongoing quality-improvement work, reflecting an institutional research infrastructure (named professorship, research center, dedicated research staff) built around scholarly output rather than passive exposure. The program explicitly supports residents pursuing private practice, academic careers, or subspecialty fellowship, and structures chief-year responsibilities (running clinic teams, supervising juniors, comanaging complex patients) to build independent clinical and administrative judgment.