What makes Ohio State's Primary Care Track unique

The Primary Care Track is a three-year training program emphasizing primary care in clinic settings. Ambulatory practice blocks alternate with inpatient care blocks every other month (4 + 4 block model) to provide comprehensive training for those interested in primary care and ambulatory-based subspecialties.

The track offers academic primary care experience in an urban practice setting with exposure to suburban and rural practice settings. We strive to develop culturally competent physicians with an emphasis on providing highest quality care for underserved communities. We intentionally incorporate skill-building in addressing social determinants of health through a shared decision-making model, because we believe this make us better doctors for ALL patients.

Our 12-resident track provides a tight-knit, personalized program experience, embedded within a large academic medical center. Our curriculum includes built-in protected time for academic study, scholarship & discovery, and professional well-being. These features enable us to provide individualized training across a broad spectrum of primary care focus areas: some examples may include addiction medicine, dermatology, gender-affirming care, geriatrics, HIV-primary care, sports medicine, women’s health.

Our inpatient training ensures quality Internal Medicine education across diverse services, from community-hospital to tertiary care, from general medicine inpatient teams to specialty cardiac and oncology teams. Notably, our day-night team system includes no 24-hours call cycles.

Notable outpatient opportunities

• Longitudinal procedural training in joint injections
• Dermatology clinic time
• Exposure to rural medicine
• Protected professional wellbeing ½ day per week during clinic
• Protected Scholarship & discovery time
• Longitudinal office based quality improvement
• Enriched Social Determinants of Health training
• Protected time to develop conceptual and practical skills necessary to be a leader in your chosen field
• Community-based practice experience in Near East Columbus: an ethnically, and linguistically diverse community
• Increasing interest in primary care research and mentorship through the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, the possibilities have become limitless

Careers for our graduates

Graduates of the Ohio State Internal Medicine Primary Care Track have a wide range of opportunities upon graduation. Resident continuity practice provides the opportunity for residents to assume the role of the primary care provider for a panel of patients, many of whom the residents meet when they are hospitalized for an acute illness and are identified as someone who needs a “family doctor.”

Our residents are offered comprehensive career-planning services, including access to mentors, CV development, interviewing and contract negotiations. Over the past 5 years, twelve (60%) of our graduates have pursued primary care based practices and six (30%) went on to fellowship training programs. Two of our graduates entered into hybrid hospitalist positions, one with academic responsibilities in the Ohio State Office of Quality and Safety and the other leading a transgender primary care based clinic. The Primary Care Track leads the way in resident education by providing innovative educational and clinical care opportunities tailored exclusively to each trainee.