Mission & Objectives

Mission: We prioritize community in all that we do. Through a rigorous and supportive learning environment, our family medicine residents are valued as colleagues and individual learners. We focus on training full spectrum physicians who can be leaders in their communities and understand population health, run an inter-disciplinary team, all while providing excellent care to their patients.

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 eighteen years (2008-2026) we gradually increased our class sizes to our current number of 22 residents, 9 per class is our current maximum.

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. Our program has helped to bring primary care doctors to the Mid-Willamette Valley area with over 100 graduates with over a quarter of them staying in our healthcare system including three of which are core faculty.