Family Medicine - O'Bleness Hospital
Our family medicine residency trains you for a diverse and fulfilling career.
O’Bleness Hospital’s three-year, ACGME-accredited family medicine residency accepts four residents each year into a small program that offers one-to-one training within a close-knit culture. You’ll practice in community-based hospitals and urban medical centers, including nationally renowned academic and osteopathic healthcare systems.
NRMP Program Code: 2221120C0
Why Choose Family Medicine at O'Bleness Hospital
Our residency program is designed to bring you up to speed smoothly, while learning from the best minds in the field.
A Strong Curriculum That Opens Doors
We prepare you in all areas of family medicine, blending rural and urban experiences.
Our comprehensive training offers many opportunities not typically available in rural programs. Your practice will span prenatal to pediatric and geriatric care, and emergency, surgery, ICU and subspecialty medicine, including fellowship preparation. Urban, academic and rural experiences will connect you with many local underserved patients.
Faculty will work one-on-one with each resident to ensure mastery of Osteopathic Manipulative medicine and clinic-based procedures, such as joint injections. As you progress through residency you will gain both increasing responsibility and valuable experience rotating in a variety of services such as obstetrics and gynecology, sports, hospital and addiction medicine to prepare you for independent practice.
Your Success Starts Here.
Our graduates succeed and lead in rural, urban, solo and group family medicine practice or as fellowship-trained specialists, subspecialists and faculty. Your post-residency training opportunities include a year of osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine residency and a diabetes fellowship for primary care providers.
- PEDIATRICS TRAINING
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Our pediatric training provides an opportunity to care for patients from birth through adolescence. Board-certified pediatricians and family medicine faculty work in tandem to supervise residents during pediatric clinic- a unique benefit to the OhioHealth O’Bleness Family Medicine Residency.
Our family medicine residents gain experience in adolescent care at Campus Care - Ohio University’s student health center. Family medicine physicians who run the clinic are Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine faculty and actively provide a wide scope of education for residents throughout rotations.
- SPORTS MEDICINE OMM
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Residents with an interest in sports medicine will have an opportunity to work alongside osteopathic sports medicine physicians and provide medical services to college athletes.
- Immersion in the local community
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There are many opportunities to reach out to underserved community members. Residents help educate patients and the community to promote better health. Your activities may include encouraging exercise and teaching others how to shop, plan and eat for healthy nutrition, cardiovascular health and wellness.
Other community-service opportunities abound – including performing yearly school physicals, giving educational presentations to seniors and raising funds to supply AEDs (automated external defibrillators) to area high schools.
- ROTATION OPPORTUNITIES
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In addition to OhioHealth O’Bleness Hospital in Athens, OhioHealth Doctors Hospital in Columbus and other OhioHealth hospitals and outpatient clinics, residents rotate at affiliated locations, including:
- Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare
- Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus)
- Hopewell Health Center in Athens
- The Laurels of Athens Extended Care Facility
- RESEARCH SUPPORT
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OhioHealth Institute of Research and Innovation will provide you with every available tool you need to support you in planning and conducting research. These resources provide you with access to existing research, clinical and data coordination, contract guidance, quality assurance and other types of support.