Western Reserve Health Education (WRHE) is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization affiliated with multiple hospitals spanning Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. WRHE consists of several departments that foster medical education: Graduate Medical Education, Continuing Medical Education, Undergraduate Medical Education, Research and the Health Science Library.
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WRHE has a long history in graduate medical education. Residency training began at Youngstown Hospital Association in the late 1800's with just three residents. WRHE offers a rural residency program in Internal Medicine as well as a Rhinology fellowship. We are working on a new proposal for a Rural Track Program in General Surgery in the coming months. Our programs will allow residents to gain experiences in rural and urban patient populations at our affiliated sites at Sharon Regional Health System, The Surgical Hospital at Southwoods, Akron Children's Hospital, Salem Regional Medical Center, Allegheny General Hospital, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Presbyterian.​
WRHE prides itself on core values that COMPEL us to achieve our mission:
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Compassion: Foster a culture of inclusion which allows us to provide compassionate, culturally sensitive care to the community we serve.
​Opportunity: Provide opportunities and flexibility supporting residents individualized career plans by attracting and sustaining an outstanding, diverse faculty that enhance education and scholarship while optimizing residents' professional and personal development to support individualized career paths/goals.
​Mentor: Mentor residents to become leaders and engage in educational and research activities to apply in clinical practice while maintaining a culture of nurturing wellness where resident support, resident congeniality and mentorship are of utmost importance.
​​Professionalism: Advocate for institutionalizing a culture of respect, integrity, responsibility, transparency and courtesy with the highest ethical standards.
Empower: Empower residents with clinical skills, patient safety initiatives, quality improvement and research opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
Leadership: Lead with service in mind, always accountable to others, and highly respectful of peers, patients, and community. We strive to graduate residents who are good role models in practicing interdisciplinary compassionate care and leaders in an ever-changing healthcare environment.