Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

WMed's OB/GYN program is a community-based university-affiliated residency in Kalamazoo, Michigan, built around two teaching hospitals, Bronson Methodist and Beacon Kalamazoo, with continuity clinics at the WMed Oakland Drive Campus, giving residents a balanced obstetric and gynecologic clinical volume. The four-year curriculum layers subspecialty exposure progressively, beginning with MFM and gynecologic oncology in year two and adding urogynecology, complex family planning, and REI by years three and four, reflecting a broad generalist foundation rather than early subspecialty tracking. The program explicitly states it prepares graduates for general practice, academics, fellowship, or industry, indicating a flexible, non-prescriptive career orientation rather than a fellowship-pipeline identity. As a relatively young ACGME-accredited program (first class 2018) situated within a smaller academic medical school, it appears to value residents who can thrive in a hands-on, community-hospital training environment with structured protected academic time and simulation-based learning.