Cleveland Clinic Akron General says it is expanding several areas of its graduate medical education program which will result in a 30% increase in the number of physicians it trains each year, once the program becomes fully operationalized in 2024.
Prior to 2018, 138 residents were training at Akron General. This grew to 153 in the 2020-2021 academic year, which began July 1, and will reach 177 by 2024. Cleveland Clinic says the biggest growth will come from Akron General’s decision to start a psychiatry residency program. Akron General had its own program many years ago, but shifted to participating in a shared program with several other local hospitals in the 1970s.
The new psychiatry program will have four residents in each of its four years of training, with the first group starting in July 2021. When it is fully implemented, with 16 participants, it will double the number of trained psychiatrists graduating in the Akron area each year.
Akron General is also expanding its OB/GYN residency program, from four residents per year (in a four-year program) to five per year starting with this year’s class.
