University of Nevada School of Medicine - Post-Graduate Residency & Fellowships

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE RENO: VISION, MISSION, VALUES

The Family Medicine Residency is committed to training competent family physicians dedicated to providing continuing, comprehensive, cost-effective care to their patients in the context of the patient's family and community. To achieve these goals, the Residency emphasizes the following:

Providing high quality, cost-effective care. This includes developing attitudes which foster self-evaluation and peer review.
Providing an environment which simulates a typical family medicine office, including experience with practice management, so that the resident will develop the skills required to enter a practice successfully.
Developing a depth of knowledge and skill to handle the "common problems, uncommonly well."
Utilizing up to date evidence and collaboration with ancillary health services to provide optimal management of chronic illnesses.
While emphasizing ambulatory care, insuring that the resident will become skilled in caring for the acutely ill, hospitalized patient, including serious, life-threatening illness.
Familiarizing the resident with rural primary care in order to provide the basic training necessary to perform satisfactorily in that setting.
Building in sufficient flexibility and elective time in order to "custom tailor" the resident's training for his/her planned practice setting.
Offering additional training in high risk and operative obstetrics, as well as trauma, surgery and triage, for the resident who needs this additional depth.
Providing a comprehensive program that will insure the residents' successful completion of the requirements leading to eligibility for board certification by the American Board of Family Medicine.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

The educational goals of the Department of Family and Community Medicine are:

To train family medicine residents to be competent family physicians who are able to respond to changing health care needs in the State of Nevada, and capable of practicing in either rural or urban locations.
To educate family medicine residents and medical students in the basic principles of preventive medicine, epidemiology and community medicine.
To help family medicine residents and medical students acquire the scientific knowledge and develop the necessary skills required to provide competent, comprehensive, cost-effective health care.
To help family medicine residents and students develop an open mind regarding innovations in primary care, and to assume the role of patient advocate within the health care system.
To encourage medical students to consider primary care, particularly family medicine, as a career choice.
To provide medical students with basic education and training in ambulatory medicine.
To educate the family medicine resident and students in the realities of everyday practice and practice management.