The Toledo Hospital is the largest acute-care facility in the region. Serving a 23-county area in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, the 774-bed hospital is staffed by more than 4,000 professional health care employees. Patients at The Toledo Hospital have access to the area's largest board-certified medical staff, comprised of over 1,100 primary care and specialty physicians.

The Toledo Hospital Family Medicine residency was started in 1974 and has a long tradition of graduating quality family physicians. As of July, 2006, the residency has graduated 172 family physicians. They are practicing in a variety of arrangements including solo practice, partnerships, groups, academic positions, university health service, missionary medicine, the armed services, occupational medicine, and sports medicine.
Primary Care Sports Medicine Residency Program

This program , affiliated with The Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, is a 12-month clinical training program designed to meet the primary objectives needed to achieve a sub-specialty certification in sports medicine. Three fellows are accepted annually. It was one of the first Primary Care Sports Medicine Residencies established in the United States, and has graduates throughout the country. It is best known for its hands-on experience with athletes at all levels.

Today's athlete faces a wide variety of medical and orthopaedic issues. Appropriate care demands a physician skilled in providing comprehensive, highly specialized care. In the United States, primary care physicians deliver most sports health care. Therefore, The Toledo Hospital Primary Care Sports Medicine Residency Program has been developed to improve the knowledge base and provide a mechanism of gaining advanced training for those primary care physicians who care for a significant number of athletes in their practice and/or provide coverage for athletic events.

Through the Primary Care Sports Medicine Residency Program, fellows will be involved in providing care for athletes at all levels including those involved with the following:

* NCAA Division I athletics (The University of Toledo)
* NCAA Triple A baseball (Toledo Mud Hens)
* IHL Minor league hockey (Toledo Storm)
* 10 high schools in the Greater Toledo area

The primary care physician provides initial evaluation and treatment for athletes. Five associate medical directors provide diversity in teaching sports medicine. Additionally, some faculty associate directors are osteopathic medicine physicians. Fellows learn how to use osteopathic manipulations concurrently throughout their residency to routinely treat sports injuries.