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DFCM faculty lead and contribute to the following NEOMED programs and courses.

  • Accelerated Family Medicine Program (AFMP) allows students to complete medical school in three years and enter a NEOMED affiliated family medicine residency. Current NEOMED affiliated partnership residencies include Mercy Health St Elizabeth’s-Boardman, Mercy Health St Elizabeth’s Youngstown, Summa Health-Akron, and Summa Health-Barberton. The AFMP graduated its first student in 2022 and continues to admit 2-3 new students to the program each year.
  • College of Medicine Badge Program allows students to shape their medical education in line with their passions and career goals by demonstrating interest and accomplishments in specific areas. The Health, Education, Advocacy and Leadership learning communities offer badges in Medical Education (MedEd), Patient Advocacy and Community Health (PACH), Rural Medicine (RMED), and Urban Primary Care Practice (UPCP).. The Oak Badge for Medical Humanism learning community instills compassion, empathy, and patient-centered care by fostering knowledge, skills, and engagement in the arts and humanities; Research and Scholarship Badge fosters critical thinking and reinforcement of the pathophysiological basis of disease.
  • Clinical Epilogue and Capstone (CEC) combines short M4 elective courses and large group sessions designed to provide practical life advice, techniques for maintaining work-life balance, and the opportunity to explore medicine and healthcare from alternative intellectual perspectives. CEC focuses on residency and beyond, encouraging students to consider their values, beliefs, and professional goals as they enter their specialties. It is hoped that the course will stimulate meaningful reflection about what the student has accomplished to date, about the meanings of the challenges ahead, and about the privilege of a life in medicine.
  • Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health (CEOMPH) program comprises an accredited partnership between four Eastern Ohio universities: NEOMED, Cleveland State University, University of Akron, and Youngstown State University. The CEOMPH program teaches about population/community health promotion and disease prevention through courses such as epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavior sciences, health services administration and environmental health sciences. All MPH degree students take six three-semester credit core courses in addition to track courses. In addition, all students take the two three-semester credit integrative courses, Capstone Project I and Capstone Project II. The CEOMPH program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. CEOMPH also administers graduate certificate programs in Public Health, Public Health Research, and Public Health Administration
  • Culture in Medical Education elective introduces M4 students to Cultural Foundations of Education (CFE), a multidisciplinary field including historical, sociological, anthropological, political, and philosophical perspectives on education. CFE approaches elucidate the complexities of medical training and its underlying expectations, norms, and value positions. Students become acquainted with the disciplines of CFE to critically examine medical education topics and trends of their choice, while exploring whether and how medical schools meet their social responsibilities to the public.
  • Family Medicine Clerkship, a five-week clinical rotation for all third-year medical students, promotes mastery of core competencies essential for practice as a physician focused on AAMC competencies. The clerkship focuses on these competencies in the context of the delivery of care for patients of varying ages, from birth to late adulthood in both inpatient and outpatient settings regardless of the student’s career focus.
  • Practice of Medicine (POM) combines the behavioral and social sciences and medical humanities with clinical medicine in a 4-year M1-M4 longitudinal curriculum that assists medical students to construct a complex web of personal and professional attitudes, values, knowledge, and skill sets essential to the art and science of medicine. POM fosters student growth and development in clinical skills, community health sciences, physician identity development, reflective capacity, moral development and professionalism, psychosocial medicine, and life-long health and wellness.
  • Prerequisite to the Clinical Curriculum (PCC) integrates preclinical coursework with new knowledge and skills needed for upcoming M3 clinical rotations. It is designed to help students develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and professional behaviors essential for the clinical setting.
  • Quality Improvement (QI) comprises a required course taught as part of the Accelerated Family Medicine Program in the first year and is a required course for all M4 students. This online course introduces students to systems-related issues that can lead to errors of inefficiencies. Students learn about health care improvement and solve problems that they have experienced in clinical settings regarding the quality, cost, or value in health care through a team root cause analysis exercise. Students then discuss their proposed projects addressing one of the Institute of Medicine’s six dimensions of quality with healthcare colleagues. This course is offered over the course of 9 blocks in the M4 year and as an integrated module in Primary Care Delivery Systems.
  • Residency opportunities in Family and Community Medicine in partnership with:
    • Aultman Hospital: Offers a comprehensive education emphasizing the management and treatment of common problems encountered by family physicians. An emphasis is placed on treating the whole patient, as well as their families on an ongoing basis.
    • The Christ Hospital has a full spectrum family medicine residency program, with academic affiliation and faculty coming from the University of Cincinnati and NEOMED. This gives residents the ability to benefit from the resources and learning environment of a large academic medical center and a busy community hospital. They have seven family medicine positions and two family medicine-psychiatry positions each year to make an intern class of nine.
    • Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center: Offers five PGY-1 positions for this three-year program, which is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
    • Mercy Health, St. Elizabeth Health Center Boardman (SEB) Family Medicine Residency program was founded on the premise that excellence in medical care comes from quality of teaching, an intellectually stimulating environment and an ample variety of clinical exposures. Their experienced faculty is ready to provide a challenging but supportive environment for residents to grow and gain essential skills. A graduate of this program will be ready to enter any number of clinical opportunities and find him or herself capable and comfortable. SEB offers six PGY-1 positions each year, and now has a special Rural Pathway.
    • Mercy Health, St. Elizabeth Health Center Youngstown: The Family Medicine Residency at St Elizabeth Heath Center has been a vital part of the Youngstown Ohio area since 1977. It has graduated over 100 family physicians since it was founded. SEY offers 4 PGY-1 positions per year.
    • MetroHealth Family Medicine residency program prepares graduates to practice as hospitalists, outpatient physicians, and is a great steppingstone to fellowship training. Graduates are able and encouraged to tailor their education to the career path of their choosing, all the while learning to tackle the unique challenges faced by primary care providers in underserved communities.
    • Mount Carmel Family Medicine Residency at St. Ann’s Hospital is a three-year ACGME-accredited program where our residents learn to practice Family Medicine in an unopposed, community-based hospital. We are proud to train the next generation of family physicians and graduate our residents with a 100% board pass rate.
    • OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency program combines a strong academic focus — including new technologies and innovative teaching techniques — with exceptional, diverse, clinical experience.
    • SUMMA – Akron City Hospital: The program has over 250 graduates, who have gone on to practice in many areas of family medicine – hospitalist, solo practice, urgent care, hospice and palliative care, locum tenens, rural medicine, international medicine, and group practice.
    • SUMMA – Barberton Hospital: This nationally recognized program is unique in Northeast Ohio and attracts exceptional new doctors – the brightest and the best – who want to specialize in family medicine.
    • University Hospitals Lake Health
    • University Hospitals St. Johns Family Medicine Residency program has a flexible curriculum and work-life balance. They offer several resident wellness opportunities, including social events, chair massages, therapy dogs, stress management resiliency training, UH well-being incentive program, and an employee assistance program. They strive to provide residents with a high degree of exposure to procedures throughout their training including dermatologic, orthopedic, gynecological, and osteopathic manipulative procedures. Additionally, residents graduate with a high conversance in health systems management, including leadership training and practice management, as well as competency in patient care and population health.