University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Tulsa Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an academically based, clinically driven university OB/GYN program embedded in the OU School of Community Medicine, serving as the major referral center for maternal-fetal medicine, gynecologic oncology, and urogynecology across Eastern Oklahoma, Western Arkansas, Southwestern Missouri, and Southern Kansas. The program's explicit dual mission pairs high-volume, often underserved obstetric and gynecologic care with structured resident education, and its team-based research model (PGY-1 through PGY-4 teams with faculty mentors, mandatory Research Day presentations, and QI project tracks) reflects genuine expectation of scholarly output rather than optional involvement. Training occurs across three major Tulsa hospital systems (Hillcrest, St. Francis, Ascension St. John) with resident-run services, four-year float night call, subspecialist exposure, and robotic surgical volume (five robots in Tulsa), signaling emphasis on surgical autonomy and procedural breadth. The program values residents who engage with its community-medicine mission of serving the region's less-fortunate populations while contributing to its active applied and quality-improvement research culture.