Program Overview

Introduction to the Family and Community Medicine Residency Program

The Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at UCSF Fresno offers a unique blend of training with distinct urban and rural family health centers. All family medicine residents have an identified continuity clinic, which they select from 3 federally qualified health centers (FQHC) - United Health Centers Ambulatory Care Center- ACC, United Health Centers -Parlier, or Clinica Sierra Vista.

Curriculum

Ambulatory Care

The program provides a wide variety of outpatient experiences, including pediatrics, women’s health, medical subspecialties, surgery/procedure-based services, behavioral health, geriatrics, and palliative care. These outpatient experiences take place at various teaching sites, including UHC-ACC, Veteran’s Administration Central California Health Care System, Alzheimer and Memory Center, Community Cancer Institute, and more.

• Specialty clinics include:
  • Colposcopy Clinic (UHC ACC)
  • Gender Affirming Care (UHC ACC)
  • Harm Reduction Clinic
  • Hepatitis C Clinic (UHC ACC and UHC Parlier)
  • HIV clinic (specialty services clinic through CRMC)
  • Mobile Clinic (CSV)
  • Sports Medicine Clinic (UHC)
  • Urgent care (Clinica Sierra Vista at Elm)

Inpatient Care

UCSF Fresno provides intensive, structured inpatient learning opportunities. Family medicine residents are assigned to teaching services at Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) and Valley Children’s Health Care, the only pediatric hospital in the San Joaquin Valley.

Scholarly Projects

During their three years of training, residents complete one scholarly and one quality improvement project with extensive support and individualized expert assistance for their projects by family medicine research faculty and staff.

Curriculum Committee

A curriculum committee consisting of residents and faculty meets monthly to critically appraise the curricula. Each curricular area is reviewed every six months, and an in-depth analysis is done annually.

Program Details

• Program Director: Caroline Render-Teixeira, MD
• The program offers fellowships in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Maternal Child Health.
• Residents have many opportunities for regional and national dissemination of their scholarly work, which is encouraged by the program.
• The program provides access to culturally competent, inclusive gender-affirming care.
• The program has a broad portfolio of faculty and resident research projects aimed at having a better understanding of the needs of patients and their disease.