St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based Transitional Year program at a Level I Trauma Center and tertiary referral hospital, co-sponsored by the institution's Internal Medicine and General Surgery programs and academically affiliated with NEOMED, LECOM and OUHCOM. The curriculum is built on seven core rotations (medicine, trauma/surgery, MICU, ambulatory care, emergency medicine, neurology) followed by four months of electives, giving residents substantial latitude to customize preparation for a wide range of destination specialties, historically including radiology, anesthesiology, PM&R, dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, internal medicine and family medicine. A required research project signals modest but genuine scholarly expectation rather than a research-driven identity. The program's small size (four residents), single-site training, and explicit residents-teaching-medical-students role point to a locally embedded, service-integrated culture rather than a competitive academic showcase.