Introduction

Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program

The family physician fills a special role in medicine: meeting the challenge to bridge economic, cultural, and language barriers to provide accessible, appropriate, and effective care. The needs of patients, particularly the poor, cannot be adequately served by traditional hospital or office-based healthcare systems. Physicians in family practice residency training are encouraged to provide clinical care within the context of the community in which they live. Begun in 1973 in response to a critical need for physicians in the rural areas of the state, the University of New Mexico (UNM) residency in family practice incorporates a unique combination of tertiary care training with broad experiences in rural settings. “1+2” programs in Las Cruces, Roswell, and Santa Fe evolved in the mid-90’s to decentralize training of physicians from tertiary care sites into community settings like those in which they will be practicing.  Current 1+2 Training Programs remain in Santa Fe and Roswell. Las Cruces and UNM offer complete three-year programs.

 

Santa Fe’s Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program began in 1996 and is jointly sponsored by UNM, St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and La Familia Community Health Center. It is designed as a longitudinal- and block-based residency experience. The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and fully meets the expectations of the American Board of Family Practice. The continuity site is at La Familia Community Health Center.  Additional training occurs at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, the Santa Fe Indian Hospital, the offices of local physicians, and in rural settings.

 

Class of 2009 and Class of 2010

 

 

 

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