Kettering Health Network Program

Program Identity & Fit

Kettering Health Dayton's General Surgery Residency is a five-year, osteopathically-rooted community-based program training surgeons across six clinical sites, including its own Level 3 trauma center, Dayton Children's Hospital, Miami Valley Hospital, and Ohio State University Hospital, giving residents broad exposure without being anchored to a single tertiary quaternary-care identity. The program explicitly frames its mission around producing "community-based" general surgeons prepared to serve Kettering Health's expanding network in the Dayton area, while still supporting residents who pursue fellowship subspecialization. Research is structurally supported rather than central to program identity, residents are required to present posters annually and chief residents present at ACOS, and dedicated research navigators, statistical consultants, and a writers' workshop back scholarly output aimed at meeting ACGME requirements rather than academic productivity for its own sake. Faculty are predominantly DOs trained through the same osteopathic lineage, several are Kettering-area natives who returned to practice locally, reflecting a program that values continuity, regional loyalty, and osteopathic identity in its trainees.