Family practice is the second largest medical specialty in the United States. Because it is a broad-based clinical discipline, which encompasses aspects of every medical and surgical specialty, it is our philosophy that the family practice resident should receive specialty caliber training from consultant specialists and practicing family physicians. A full- and part-time, hospital-based, university appointed faculty serve to support medical education for all our residents and medical students. The emphasis placed on education of our residents is second only to the care of our patient.
 
Our family medicine residency program is designed to prepare the medical school graduate for the delivery of comprehensive health care to patients of all ages. Our curriculum emphasizes the care of patients in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics/gynecology, but we also include rotations in surgery, emergency medicine, dermatology, neonatology, orthopedics, ICU, cardiology, and psychiatry. The core of the residency-training program is conducted in the Family Practice Center, a spacious and modern office suite. Residents spend one session each week in the center in the first year, two in the second, and three in the third. From the first day, each resident begins building a practice -- a group of patients that the resident will continue to see throughout the three years. In each session at least two preceptors are present and provide individual instruction, review findings, and aid in the management of patients.