Patient Care

• Family practice center operated as a federally qualified community health center
• Group visits: wellness clinic, diabetes clinic in English, Laotian, Cambodian, and Spanish, and lactation classes in Spanish, with expansion to chronic pain, exercise, and prenatal care in the near future
• Multi-specialty experiences in:
  • Dementia clinic
  • Headache clinic
  • Pain management

Residency Education

• Leadership and Professional Development curriculum
• Community-based consortium sponsorship that includes: the three major community hospitals, the public health department, a community health center, the county, and UCSF School of Medicine
• Broad array of international medicine elective experiences
• Resident-driven curriculum
• Weekly electronic clinical EBM newsletter
• Community-wide faculty development program
• Cultural competency curriculum
• Integrative medicine grant for curriculum development

Community Support

• Clinic for community access to prenatal care
• Close relationship with public health and HIV treatment programs
• Community Health Worker mentorship program
• Coordination of Annual Latino Health Forum

Educational pillars:

• Supervised resident autonomy: where residents experience the responsibility of the care of patients
• Environment of academia: where students teach and teachers learn
• Environment of humanism and social justice: a.) An acknowledgement of the rights for every patient’s access to health care and b.) An acknowledgment of the intense period or personal growth and development during residency
• Developing a strong sense of a family medicine identity

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