Wellstar Health System-Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Wellstar Kennestone OB/GYN is a community-based, four-year program that explicitly brands itself "THE community program" in Georgia, serving as a regional transfer center for high-acuity obstetric and gynecologic patients from Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. The clinical environment blends broad-spectrum community obstetrics with subspecialty exposure through structured rotations in maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology, gynecologic oncology, and REI, alongside robotic/minimally invasive surgical training and FLS/EMIGS certification. A research requirement exists but graduate outcomes are overwhelmingly private practice in Georgia, indicating the program prioritizes producing well-rounded, board-eligible community generalist OB/GYNs over fellowship-bound subspecialists, with only rare exceptions (one MFM fellowship graduate cited). The program explicitly values addressing physician workforce need and maternal mortality reduction in Georgia, and maintains a resident-run continuity clinic serving an indigent, uninsured, and underinsured population under a financial assistance model.