Program Overview
The Internal Medicine Residency at Mercy Health – Fairfield Hospital in Fairfield, Ohio, is a three-year internal medicine residency program which will accept 12 residents each year starting in the 2025 Match (2024-2025 Recruitment/Interview Season). The program is currently pending Initial ACGME Accreditation. We are a community-based internal medicine residency program, where our residents are treated as respected members of the medical staff within our hospital.Our program faculty represent a diverse group of physician educators with a variety of backgrounds, academic, and clinical experiences. The faculty are committed to resident education – ensuring excellent clinical training and scholarship, with a focus on resident wellness within a supportive close-knit community of providers. We are committed to developing physicians prepared to care for an ever-changing adult population, within a dynamic healthcare system.
Our goal is to graduate exceptionally confident and capable internists who are prepared for future success in multiple career pathways – whether that be subspecialty training, hospital medicine or primary care. We support our trainees in research and quality improvement projects and encourage residents to have a voice in the operations and design of their own program. We create resilient, fulfilled physicians through a focus on wellness, professional communication, and team-based care.
Well-being is a key factor in training capable and compassionate physician leaders. Our rotation schedule and curriculum have been developed to provide robust clinical and educational experiences while also being designed to allow work-life balance and develop leadership skills to approach the future with resilience and mindfulness.
We are committed to excellence in Graduate Medical Education. To that end, we have created a brand-new renovated office space for our residency clinic, as well as administrative space on the campus of Mercy Fairfield Hospital.
Program Aims
Our program aims include the following:
To foster an environment of personal growth and resident wellness and resiliency, to promote rewarding physician careers for our graduates.
To provide high quality, high value, equitable care for our local community.
To recruit and develop a diverse faculty with a passion for education, service to our community, and continuous improvement.
To create a collaborative, intellectually curious atmosphere in which scholarly activity, particularly quality improvement, thrives.
To design a safety-focused culture where errors are mitigated through open communication and process improvement.
To give graduated responsibility to our resident physicians, preparing them for readiness to practice in different settings at graduation as well as preparing them to become physician leaders.
Accreditation Status
Program Name: Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Program, Internal Medicine
ACGME ID number: 1403800003
Accreditation Status: Pending
Length of Training: Three years
Approved Resident Positions: Pending - 36 total, accepts 12 residents per year.