Rotations and Curriculum

Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center

St. Vincent is home to four 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.

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 healthcare to the residents of west Toledo and southeast Michigan.

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center 

UH Cleveland Medical Center is a 1,032-bed academic medical center providing primary, specialty and subspecialty medical and surgical care. UH’s Transplant Institute has been performing transplant surgeries since 1968, and the experience and expertise of their staff has led to excellent success rates. UH serves as the site for the program’s transplant surgical rotation.  The UH Transplant Institute performs transplants of the heart, lung, kidney, liver and pancreas.

Supplemental to the clinical curriculum, the program provides protected time for didactic activities:

• Didactic activities include one half-day of protected time every week for resident and faculty lectures, case presentations, anatomy labs, simulation and more. Topics are based on the Surgical CORE (SCORE) curriculum of the American College of Surgeons and include weekly reading assignments and quizzes.
• Each month, residents will participate in a Morbidity and Mortality conference, as well as Journal Club to discuss current medical literature and articles.
• Scholarly activity is a required component of ACGME-accredited training, for which our institution provides oversight and support through a dedicated academic research coordinator.