The program provides the physician with clinical experience in all areas pertinent to the practice of Family Medicine. The resident is taught the concept of the family as a unit and is able to understand how illness affects that entire unit. The experiences provided allow each resident to measure his or her clinical skills and also prepares residents for the business management of a private practice.

Residency training is divided by the time the physician spends with inpatient services at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and the time spent seeing his or her own panel of patients in the Family Medicine Center. Additional time in the program is devoted to electives and required rotations.

Specifically, the Family Medicine Residency Program seeks:

• to provide quality training in the disciplines of Family Medicine.
• to impart the knowledge and skills necessary to allow a family practitioner to demonstrate competency in both clinical and procedural skills.
• to train in family-centered care that addresses the longitudinal health care needs of the residents' patients, focusing on comprehensive preventive health care.
• to provide residents an environment that fosters commitment to serving the community and providing care to the medically under-served.
• to foster a high level of professional behavior and to help residents balance their personal and professional lives in a way that ensures continued growth throughout their careers.
• to provide a forum of scholarship through which motivated physicians can actively pursue medical knowledge.
• to develop in resident physicians the desire to maintain high-quality medical skills and clinical practices beyond their residency through continued medical education programs.

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