|  Over 8,000 families are cared for in the Family Medicine Center. In all cases patients are selected as family units in order to provide the resident physician with the experience of caring for an entire family.
Each resident spends time in the Family Medicine Center: a minimum of one half-day per week the first year, two half-days per week the second year, and three half-days per week the third year. Residents have their own assigned families for whom they are responsible.
 The Family Medicine Center functions as a private office with regularly scheduled office hours. A resident's patient population is an average of:
- 100 patients for the first year
- 300 patients for the second year
- 500 patients for the third year
The clinic also provides OB care for women of the community. Residents deliver an average of over 300 babies annually in The Family Birthplace.
 Our clinical pharmacist organizes an indigent drug program which provides a variety of prescription medications to our patients at a reduced cost. He also participates in resident teaching through didactic sessions and one-on-one consultations. This has been an invaluable resource for our residents.
Residents are able to become proficient at a wide variety of procedures during their training at the Family Medicine Center including:
- Anoscopy
- Casting/Splinting
- Colposcopy with biopsy
- Cryosurgery (both cervical and skin)
- EKG
- Endometrial Biopsies and curettage
- Incision and Drainage
- Joint injection and aspiration
- Laceration repair
- LEEP (both cervical and dermatologic)
- Non-stress testing (for OB patients)
- Pulmonary function testing (spirometry)
- Skin Biopsy and skin lesion removal
- Ultrasound (obstetrical)
- Wart removal (condyloma and verrucae)
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