1. Name of Training Program: OMECO Pediatrics Residency Program 2. Discipline of the Residency Program: Pediatrics 3. Type of Application: Expansion 4. Eligible Entity Type: GME Consortium 5. Year Program First Began Training Residents: 2012 6. Organizational Website: https://health.okstate.edu/gme/residency-fellowships.html 7. Brief Overview: The Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma (OMECO) successfully implemented and operates a Teaching Health Center funded Pediatrics Residency Program since 2012. The program utilizes the ambulatory clinic of the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Clinic System in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The OSU Clinic System serves as the clinic base for residents while the OSU Medical Center (a hospital owned by State of Oklahoma Trust and managed by St. Francis Health System) and St. Francis Hospital serve as rotation sites for hospital-based, inpatient training). OMECO has academic and financial responsibility for the proposed program expansion. The OSU Physicians Pediatric Clinic is located in downtown Tulsa and serves approximately 7,000 patients. The patient population is racially and ethnically diverse with the majority of patients from a racial/ethnic minority including non-Hispanic Black (24%), Hispanic (22%), American Indian (6%) and Multiracial/other (9%). Further, the majority of patients are low income and 89% meet the threshold for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program payers. Nearly 35% report food insecurity. The OSU Clinic System functions as a teaching health center, in that Pediatrics residents and undergraduate medical students are co-training. The patient acuity, access, and volume are sufficient for an ambulatory residency expansion. Physician faculty will continue to train resident physicians to provide the full range of pediatrics care in a variety of practice settings in both urban and rural communities, including communities that are medically underserved. Comprehensive data regard
ing the practice pattern of graduates has been collected and will continue to be collected for annual reporting and research. Data collected includes: physician specialty choice; practice location; practice type (e.g., employed physician, private practice, group practice, etc.); and practice characteristics (e.g., location in a Health Professional Shortage Area and/or a Medically Underserved Area, interprofessional practice experiences, patient payer source information, etc.). 8. Total FTE Positions Requested: 24 residents (8-8-8) total of 96 9. FTE Positions Requested for AY 2022-2023: 24 (8-8-8) residents