We have a three-year longitudinal curriculum in Community Medicine. School health Residents receive training in these areas primarily through direct experience in the community. For example, residents participate in COPC projects with FPC community health outreach workers in a local neighborhood, work at a high school-based clinic and provide medical care at the Public Health STD Clinic. Residents may choose from a list of established community projects or may propose one of their own in conjunction with an advisor. The purpose of the community projects is to provide residents with an opportunity to design and implement longitudinal community-oriented experiences.
Residents are members of community outreach teams in medically underserved areas.
Faculty and advisors are committed to supporting residents in developing community projects that are sufficiently compelling to draw them into new creative experiences and away from the constant pull of the hospital. Cross Cultural Training Opportunities S anta Rosa offers opportunities to work with many different ethnic and cultural groups. The patient population of the FPC is diverse, serving individuals and families from Latin America, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Eritrea. Residents receive training in issues of cross-cultural medicine through interactive clinical training, community activities and didactic sessions. W eekly resident support groups serve as the central component of the Resident Well-being Program.