Valley Consortium for Medical Education
Family Medicine Residency Program
Curriculum Highlights
Dynamic Curriculum
As residents progress through their three years of training, they transition from inpatient-focused rotations to outpatient-focused rotations. Though our mission to to train primary care physicians, our strong inpatient training has produced multiple hospitalists straight out of residency.
Addiction Medicine
In collaboration with community resources and local government, our program trains residents to initiate and continue substance use disorder treatment. Our program is evolving towards more community outreach, including Street Medicine Clinic.
Care of LGBTQ+ Community
Rainbow clinic was born in 2018, founded by our alumni and faculty. Our residents are given ample opportunity to take care of LGBTQ+ community to promote valuing inclusivity and diversity.
Serving the Underserved
Modesto has a large migrant, immigrant, refugee and homeless population, these social determinants make them high-risk patients. Serving in Modesto is an opportunity to help bridge care gaps for these groups. Their complex medical needs challenge our residents and equip them for their future career.
Areas of Concentration
Our curriculum allows residents to tailor elective time to pursue a specialty focus within family medicine. Residents work closely with a designated mentor in the area of concentration (AOC). A certification is granted at time of graduation. Previously completed AOC include but are not limited to Women's Health, Addiction Medicine, Urgent Care, Diabetes, and Pediatrics. Electives we offer include: Addiction Medicine Cardiology CV Surgery DPC Family Practice ER General Surgery GI Hemonc Hospice ICU ID MSK Nephrology Neurosurgery NICU Occupational Health Pain Management Ultrasound Wound Care
Didactics
We hold half-day didactics & interactive learning every Wednesday afternoon. Wide range of specialists are invited to speak to residents, enhancing their skills in primary care. Workshops for in-office procedures such as suturing, toenail removal, Nexplanon are offered. In preparation for Boards Exam, review sessions are also routinely held.
Introductory Block
Our PGY1s will begin their residency with a Intro Block of 4 weeks. During this block, they are given a sneak-peak of all of the core rotations, starting with shadowing or a small patient panel, so they can get acquainted with the EMR and the workflow before delving deeper into the medicine.
Behavioral Health
Our behavioral health faculty leads our residents' education for behavioral health whilst ensuring residents' wellness. Not only do residents learn how to effectively communicate with patients, they also learn how to self-reflect, receive feedback, and participate in Balint group.
Wellness
We value our residents' wellness- we cannot take care of patients if we don't take care for ourselves. Wellness days are designed into residents' schedule quarterly. Our Behavioral Health faculty also routinely checks in with residents to provide full-support.
Scholarly Forum
Every year, residents work in teams with our faculty mentors to carry out quality improvement project PDSA (Plan Do Study Act) projects. Residents are also required to present a topic of choice at our Annual Scholarly Forum. Our Annual Scholarly Forum is unique to the region, attracting other programs' residents to participate as well.