Rotations and Curriculum — Family Medicine Residency at St. Vincent Medical Center

Facilities

Mercy Health – St. Charles Hospital

Mercy Health – St. Charles Hospital

St. Charles has been providing for the healthcare needs of Toledo’s eastern communities. A 390-bed Level III Trauma Center, St. Charles serves residents of Oregon, East Toledo and Lucas, Wood and Ottawa counties.

St. Charles provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient care and offers a homelike maternity center, a comprehensive cancer center, acute inpatient rehabilitation services and a women’s health center.

Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center

St. Vincent is home to five Life Flight air ambulances, holds the highest designation for treating high risk mothers and babies, Comprehensive Stroke Center and is a Level I Trauma Center for Adults and Level II for children. 

Located on the St. Vincent campus are; Orthopedics, Mercy Health – Regional Heart and Vascular Institute, Mercy Health Neuroscience Institute and the area’s only Mobile Stroke Unit. St. Vincent provides a modern, attractive and secure campus and takes a leadership role in providing quality medical education and community development.

St. Vincent Medical Center
Nationwide Children's Hospital Toledo

Nationwide Children's Hospital – Toledo

Based on models of state-of-the-art facilities around the country, Nationwide Children’s Hospital has the full range of sophisticated facilities demanded by advanced pediatric care including:

  • A 16-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with long-term seizure monitoring
  • A 30-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with a perinatal center. Level III is the highest designation awarded by the Ohio Department of Health to hospitals that provide care for high-risk newborns.
  • A 26-bed general pediatric unit

Mercy Health – St. Anne Hospital

St. Anne Hospital provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services in a single location. St. Anne was designed and built with the patients, families and visitors in mind to offer quality care, comfort and convenience.

With an exceptional facility and an experienced team of healthcare professionals, St. Anne takes a leadership role in delivering health care to the residents of west Toledo and southeast Michigan. 

Mercy Health – St. Anne Hospital
Mercy Health – Perrysburg Hospital

Mercy Health – Perrysburg Hospital

Mercy Health – Perrysburg Hospital offers you the high-quality health care you need and the compassion you deserve in a full-service hospital setting. Our expert doctors, nurses and caregivers are committed to help you be well in mind, body and spirit.

Through advanced treatments and cutting-edge technology, we’ve been making lives better and health care easier for Perrysburg since 2018. Mercy Health – Perrysburg Hospital proudly offers area residents a full-service 24/7 emergency room, surgery, private inpatient rooms, critical care, imaging and lab services on site. Our convenient location makes it easier for you to access the care you need when you need it the most – now ever closer to home.

Rotation Schedule

PGY 1 Rotation Block

Duration

Family Medicine Inpatient

2 months

Obstetrics

2 months

General Surgery Inpatient

1 month

Practice Management/Behavioral Health 1 month

Pediatrics Inpatient

1 month

Emergency Medicine

1 month

Family Medicine – Outpatient

1 month

Internal Medicine

3 months

 

PGY 2 Rotation Block

Duration

Family Medicine Inpatient

2 months

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

1 month

Radiology/Newborn Nursery

2 weeks/2 weeks

ICU

1 month

Family Medicine Outpatient

1 month

Pediatric Outpatient

1 month

Internal Medicine

2 months

Electives

3 months

 

PGY 3 Rotation Block

Duration

Family Medicine Inpatient

2 months

Emergency Medicine

1 month

Ortho/Sports Medicine

1 month

Family Medicine Outpatient

1 month

Geriatrics

1 month

Gynecology

1 month

Pediatric Outpatient

1 month

Internal Medicine

1 month

Electives

3 months

Electives

  • Addiction Medicine
  • Allergy
  • Cardiology
  • Dermatology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Nephrology
  • Pain Management
  • Podiatry
  • Pulmonary
  • Rural Medicine

Didactic Curriculum

  • Weekly Didactics conference is held on Wednesday mornings. This is protected educational time for our residents, and all Family Medicine and off-service attending physicians realize that residents will be at these didactics each week. All available clinical faculty members attend these conferences with our residents, including physicians and psychologists, to provide a truly multidisciplinary team learning concept.
  • Monthly Inpatient M&M cases are presented by the Family Medicine team from the previous month.
  • Monthly Journal Club is also held on a monthly basis. Each month, a resident is assigned to select a journal article in collaboration with a mentoring clinical faculty member and is responsible for presenting the article and leading a critical discussion and evaluation.

Scholarly Activity

Balint Group meetings are held monthly for junior residents. Led by our staff psychologist, Balint Group provides a confidential opportunity for residents to share experiences and gain insight from their peers.