Introduction

Goals & Philosophy

Curriculum

Community Description

Family Practice Center

Mercy Medical Center

Faculty

Compensation and Benefits

Residents

Additional Program Information

Interview Information

Redding Web Links

Application

Our Educational Philosophy: We recognize our family practice residents as adult learners who will achieve clinical competence through an evidence based competency directed experience. We are committed to providing appropriate clinical experiences and effective supervision and teaching to achieve the highest level of competency.

Our Mission is threefold: to graduate family physicians who are highly qualified to practice in rural and suburban areas, to provide care to the medically underserved in our community (especially in rural settings), and to further the science and practice of family medicine through the application of Information Technology and Management.

Community Outreach: A major component of our mission is to provide care for the underserved in northern California. This is accomplished by the ongoing work of our residents, faculty, and graduates. We recruit medical students who have a shown a prior commitment to working with the underserved and then provide them with further exposure to these activities once they join us. Our continuity clinic at Mercy Family Health Center and our in-patient service at Mercy Medical Center serve predominately MediCal and Medicare patients. Our residents also do rotations at Mercy Maternity Clinic (low-income and high-risk pregnant patients), Shasta Community Health Center (our local federally qualified community health center) and Hill Country Community Clinic (a rural Health Clinic serving a small rural community east of Redding). In addition, we have a required rural rotation during our second year where residents work with rural community physicians in either Fall River Mills, Mt. Shasta or Red Bluff. Many of our residents and faculty also participate in a local homeless clinic. The full time faculty are involved with many community outreach programs focused on the underserved. These activities include medical directorship of a rural health clinic, medical directorship of Golden Umbrella (senior outreach), HIV care at our local community clinic, volunteer work at the homeless clinic, and collaboration with the Northern Sierra Rural Health Network on several rural technology projects involving telehealth and the use of hand held computers. Many of our residents have chosen to practice in California areas of unmet need following graduation.