Curriculum - Family Medicine Residency

Academic focus

The Ohio State University Family Medicine Residency Program provides a unique training experience, balancing the rigors of an academic program with the environment of traditional family medicine. As an integral part of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, our residents are clinical instructors providing the opportunity to teach medical students and other healthcare professionals. In addition, academic focus provides opportunities for research and scholarship, which is unparalleled in community programs.

Continuity clinics

Our university-based residency emphasizes family medicine with specialty rotations at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, a nationally ranked academic medical center. Our inpatient services at East Hospital allow family practice residents to develop their clinical and technical skills in a supportive environment that fosters the development of life-long learning processes necessary for every family doctor. Residents also train at two nearby clinics, where faculty and community family physicians mentor and teach our residents in the office setting. Our Family Medicine Thomas Rardin Clinic is located in the Ohio State Primary Care Northwood-High location north of the Ohio State campus and sees a variety of patients including university students, underserved and immigrant patients. Our Outpatient Care East Family Medicine Clinic is located in the Ohio State Primary Care - Family Medicine Outpatient Care East location on the near east side of Columbus, serving a large urban underserved patient population. Both Thomas Rardin Clinic and Outpatient Care East Family Medicine Clinic are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).

Additionally, second and third year residents are assigned continuity prenatal patients, where the resident is engaged with the pregnant patient during prenatal, antepartum, and postnatal care. We have Family Medicine faculty members certified in vaginal deliveries and will be present with you for the delivery.

The Outpatient Care East clinic and Thomas Rardin clinic train committed family medicine residents to provide high quality, culturally competent healthcare in urban, multicultural and lower socioeconomic communities. Through innovative and inspired healthcare delivery, disease prevention, health promotion, research and leadership, we hope to diminish or eliminate racial, gender and socioeconomic healthcare outcome disparities.

Core conference series

Every Wednesday afternoon, our residents meet for protected education time during our weekly conference. Our conferences are structured in a block-based format, with each block focusing on a core clinic topic (i.e., cardiology, dermatology, women’s health, etc.) The curriculum is 18 months in duration, which ensures that residents are exposed to each block twice during residency. Lectures are given by both family medicine faculty, as well as subspecialist experts. Content delivery includes workshops, problem-based learning, and case-based presentations. Reoccurring conference sessions include journal club, case of the month, mystery case conference, chief time, and program director time.

Family and Community Medicine Residency Curriculum

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