The Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency is committed to train residents who are dedicated to work with the underserved of Sonoma County, as well as inner city and rural populations. We believe patients have the right to receive care in their own language whenever possible and that bicultural physicians are important role models in communities traditionally underrepresented in medicine.

Although bilingual/bicultural residents are highly valued by our patient population, monolingual residents thrive as well. In our clinic setting, monolingual residents have the opportunity to enhance their foreign language skills through the support of our bilingual/ bicultural staff, language courses, and elective opportunities.

PATIENT POPULATION

Twenty five percent of the family medicine patients are monolingual Spanish speakers, many of whom are agricultural workers in Sonoma County. Individual practices vary markedly, some of our bilingual resident physicians see as many as 80% monolingual Spanish speakers in their clinics. We also serve the Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Lua, Eritrean, and Ethiopian communities. Languages represented by our resident and faculty physicians include Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Swedish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Korean, Hebrew, and Serbo-Croatian.

FACULTY DIVERSITY

The Latino community is well represented among our faculty and community attendings. New residents will find committed physicians eager to serve as mentors. Please feel free to contact the following faculty members if you have any questions; Enrique Gonzalez, M.D. or Carlos Garcia, M.D.