Mission & Objectives

Mission: To create a superior educational environment centered on the core principles of family medicine, driven by quality and compassion, providing care that will benefit and improve the overall health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Objectives: At the completion of residency training, the graduate will show mastery of the six ACGME core competencies and should:

• Demonstrate clinical excellence, utilizing current biomedical knowledge in identifying and managing the medical problems presented by his/her patients.
• Provide continuing and comprehensive care to individuals and families
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate the behavioral / emotional / social / environmental factors of families in promoting health and managing disease.
• Recognize the importance of maintaining and developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for the best in modern medical practice in a rapidly changing world and pursue a regular and systematic program of life-long learning.
• Recognize the need and demonstrate the ability to utilize consultation with other medical specialists while maintaining continuity of care.
• Share tasks and responsibilities with other health professionals.
• Be aware of the findings of relevant research; understand and critically evaluate this body of research; and apply the results of the research to medical practice.
• Manage his/her practice in a businesslike, cost-effective manner which will provide professional satisfaction and time for a rewarding personal life.
• Serve as an advocate for the patient within the health care system.
• Assess the quality of care that he/she provides and actively pursue measures to correct deficiencies.
• Recognize community resources as an integral part of the health care system; participate in improving the health of the community.
• Inform and counsel patients concerning their health problems, recognizing patient and physician backgrounds, beliefs, and expectations.
• Develop mutually satisfying physician-patient relationships to promote comprehensive problem-identification and solving.
• Use current medical knowledge to identify, evaluate and minimize risks for patient and family.
• Balance potential benefits, costs, and resources in determining appropriate interventions.

Program History

Our Family Medicine Residency was established in 2008 as part of the OR2CA Project, sponsored by the OPTI-West, and was intended to develop Osteopathic Graduate Medical Education (OGME) in Oregon and California, particularly in geographic areas with few OGME opportunities. We started out with three residents total and over the next six years (2008-2014) we gradually increased our class sizes to our current number of 27 residents, 9 per class.

We have traditionally been an osteopathic program but with the Single Accreditation System we became dually accredited in 2015 and, in 2018, became fully ACGME accredited with Continued Accreditation. This year our program graduated its first two MD residents and with the incoming class of 2020, we will have 5 MDs and 22 DOs. Our program has helped to bring primary care doctors to the Mid-Willamette Valley area and we currently have nine alumni, two of which are core faculty, as well as, two 2020 graduates who work for Samaritan Health Services.