James Schoen, DO
Medical Education, 405 W. Grand Ave., Dayton, OH 45405
Phone: (800) 497-1559
Fax: (937) 723-5017

Approved: 12
Funded: 12
Filled: 5 OGME1, 3 OGME2, 4 OGME3

The Family Practice Residency program at Grandview Medical Center is one that strives for educational excellence.  Academic sessions are held each week on a rotating schedule to include lectures, OMM clinic, book review and case study, board review, evidence-based journal review, journal club, and resident forum.

At the Victor J. Cassano, Sr. Community Health Center, the family practice residents serve as the primary care providers under direct supervision. The Victor J. Cassano Community Health Center opened in August 2003 and is one of the finest primary care teaching facilities in the profession. It offers unsurpassed technology, a superb teaching staff, an innovative curriculum and a design to train osteopathic physicians as primary care leaders in their communities.

Grandview Medical Center is university affiliated with the OUCOM and CORE. Flexibility in rotation selection can accommodate individual professional practice goals with diverse clinical opportunities from within the Grandview network as well as from outside rotations.

• Graduation from a college of osteopathic medicine approved by the American Osteopathic Association.
• Satisfactory completion of an internship in a hospital approved for intern training by the American Osteopathic Association.
• Membership, of good standing, in the American Osteopathic Association and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians.
• Licensure to practice osteopathic medicine in the state of Ohio . Otherwise, the resident must secure from the State Medical Board of Ohio, a certificate granting the right to practice osteopathic medicine while enrolled in a residency program at Grandview Hospital .
• Submission of grades from the College of Osteopathic Medicine graduated.
• The following letters of recommendation are required:
  • One letter from the Dean of the Osteopathic College from which the applicant graduated.
  • One letter from the DME of the internship hospital.
  • One letter from each of three members of the hospital staff in which the applicant interned, with one from a member engaged in the practice of family medicine.
• Personal interview with the Program Director and the Family Medicine Residency Committee of Grandview Hospital.
• After the completion of the application, in compliance with the above requirements, selection will be based on the candidate's academic ability, his/her personality, and desire, aptitude and attitude towards delivering primary health care in the area of family medicine. Race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, physical disability, or sexual orientation shall not influence the selection of applicants to the program.

OGME2

• 1 month General Internal Medicine - Hospital
• 1 month Internal Medicine Subspecialty
• 1 month Neurology
• 1 month Dermatology
• 2 months OB/GYN
• 1 month Emergency Medicine
• 1 month Orthopedics
• 1 month ENT/Ophthamology
• 2 months Pediatrics
• 1 month Elective
• 3- half days Continuity of care clinic each week

OGME3

• 1 month General Internal Medicine - Office
• 1 month Geriatrics/Hospice
• 1 month Internal Medicine Subspecialty
• 1 month Emergency Medicine
• 1 month Gynecology
• 1 month Pediatrics
• 1 month Urology/Nephrology
• 1 month Behavioral Medicine
• 1 month Surgery Subspecialty
• 3 months Electives
• 3- half days Continuity of care clinic each week