Mission:
Healthy Rural California’s Family Medicine Residency is committed to training residents to be excellent clinicians for underserved and diverse communities in the rural region of Northern California. Residents will become effective advocates for primary care, healthcare access and equity, and will provide high quality care in a variety of interprofessional clinical settings.

Aims:
1. Prepare residents for board certification, autonomous practice, and/or fellowship by providing technical training in various treatment environments, including inpatient and ambulatory medicine, experience in various subspecialties, full spectrum care, and longitudinal care for all ages, to best prepare the resident to provide optimal primary patient care where access to those services isn’t always readily available.

2. Develop compassionate, well-adjusted residents through an emphasis on physician wellness that nurtures resilience and self-care and encourages advocacy for themselves and their colleagues.

3. Develop leaders who value collegiality and collaborate to build relationships with patients and families, among colleagues, and within/across interdisciplinary health care teams.

4. Mentor critical thinkers who understand the relationship between research and clinical care and who practice lifelong learning throughout their careers. The program will convey the knowledge and skills necessary for residents to teach patients, their families, students, and fellow physicians.

5. Educate residents in health care delivery systems, health policy, aspects of community medicine, characteristics of Family Medicine practice in a rural setting and provide them with opportunities to apply data-driven methodologies to improve and patient safety while driving innovation within the health care system.

6. Model commitment to the medical profession, exceptional ethical behavior, and professionalism in all situations and relationships, respecting the rights, values, needs and autonomy of all people with respect for their unique perspectives and backgrounds, and the commitment to the medical profession. The program aims to address inherent bias and structural racism that has become foundational to medical care, training, and research to mitigate its contribution to human suffering.