Residency Program
Core Family Medicine Residency Curriculum
Our priority is to work with our residents to build a curriculum that prepares our graduates for the future of family medicine. Our residents work in a wide variety of clinical settings and systems (FQHCs, academic medical center, VA), preparing them to be able to work in just about any setting when they become board certified.
Key Features
The first-year curriculum focuses on building a strong foundation of inpatient skills and competencies. All rotations use night float and there is no 24 hour call. Our residents are fully integrated into academic teams alongside interns in different specialties, ensuring that they acquire robust hospital based skills. In addition, our interns have a month of elective time time to work on their self directed learning as family physicians. In addition to continuity clinics occurring weekly throughout their first year, our interns have five 2-week blocks of focused FM clinic at their FQHC home to ensure they are anchored well in their continuity clinic sites.
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The second- and third-year curriculum focuses on strengthening outpatient skills and the development and implementation of individual learning goals, objectives, and practice styles. In addition, our residents work as team leaders in the inpatient setting on our family medicine wards service at UC Davis Health Medical Center and at the local VA hospital. Our residents have robust obstetric experiences delivering our family medicine patients who are cared for in our continuity clinics and average 35-40 deliveries per resident at graduation. In addition to the comprehensive core curriculum content, our 6 months of elective time offer opportunity to explore a wide range of individualized experiences. We draw from our network of 40+ years of program graduates practicing in the region and the only academic medical center between San Francisco and Portland.
Our residency program is housed in one of the most diverse medical schools in the nation; our residents have ample opportunity to engage in teaching and mentorship of these exceptional students.
Additional features of our curriculum:
- Addiction medicine
- Gender-affirming care
- Reproductive health including abortion training
- Lifestyle Medicine (with option to obtain board certification)
- Ultrasound (POCUS) training, quarterly