Medical Students
Welcome
Welcome to the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program. We're excited that you're including us your undergraduate medical education by participating as a third- or fourth-year medical student in our program.
At CHRISTUS Santa Rosa, we are committed to continued excellence. Known for our clinical experiences and academic emphasis, we hope that you will find your rotation informative, educational and energizing. Our faculty and residents welcome you to our family, and they are looking forward to working with you. We hope you will develop a better understanding of the role, value, and joy of family medicine. We also want you to see our educational program and the value we place on teaching and resident well-being.
Our program is based on a unique and innovative series of curricular rotations, with experiences ranging from urban public health to rural house calls. We also have a leadership curriculum providing an opportunity to develop and enhance skills as future leaders in medicine and in the community; a sports medicine curriculum that allows for additional emphasis on musculoskeletal health; and an OB/GYN experience including high volume and operative obstetrics.
There is a lot to see and learn, and we expect you to be an active participant—but we also want you to have fun!
Our Focus
Our educational program is built on the tenets of Dr. Ernest Boyer's book, Redefining Scholarship. Dr. Boyer described four elements of scholarly activity in professional education, and we have program elements in each.
Scholarship of Discovery
We believe family physicians must be critical thinkers and be able to efficiently assess medical information for accuracy, relevance, validity and clinical applicability. Our program includes formal instruction, with hands-on exercises and information mastery resulting in confidence and skill with regard to staying current with medical literature. We also have regular sessions on evidenced-based medicine practice, point of care decision making and formal journal clubs. We want our graduates to know how to ask and follow a research question, how to obtain data, and how to evaluate this data. This is accomplished by a three-year longitudinal exercise resulting in a completed research project. Residents also have the opportunity to assist in writing peer-reviewed articles and case reports.
Scholarship of Integration
We believe family physicians bring value to communities they serve beyond their medical knowledge. We expect them to become community advocates and leaders. Graduates complete our program with the ability and the understanding to integrate needs and knowledge in the development of solutions to community problems. During the course of our program our residents develop and implement at least one (often more) service project or educational program in support of our local community. Additionally, our emphasis on leadership skills leads many of our residents to assume positions on hospital committees, local professional organizations, and, in some cases, state and national professional organizations. Our track record is unmatched in this regard.
Scholarship of Teaching
We believe family physicians have an educational role in the community and in the profession. Through educational activities designed to teach the skill of teaching, our residents are taught how to teach: at the bedside, in the clinic, in the lecture hall, and in public venues. We expect our residents to assume responsibility for a significant percentage of our didactic program by development and delivery, lecture, clinical pathology correlation presentations, morbidity and mortality presentations, and inpatient teaching rounds.
Scholarship of Application
Ultimately, we believe a family physician must be the consummate physician. Today’s family physician must be able to manage the biopsychosocial aspects of patients they serve, they must be comfortable with behavioral and mental health, they must develop and maintain the clinical and procedural skills required to deliver the widest breadth of medical care, and they must understand and be able to accommodate the challenges inherent in ambulatory medicine. Quite simply, the family physician is the doctor you want when you or your family members need care. A CHRISTUS Santa Rosa family physician is just that doctor.
We are happy you are coming to spend time with us and we look forward to working with you.
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