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Welcome! The Department of Family Practice is dedicated to providing our patients with the highest quality medical care. Every decision and every action by our staff is directed toward this ultimate goal. Our department strives to produce outstanding physicians that can serve the healthcare needs of our community. We also take great pride in the fact that we demand the highest quality of care from our staff while serving a medically underserved population.

We believe that our patients are our most important assets. Without them we would have no purpose. We place great importance on remembering our patients' names and on treating them with courtesy, fairness, and respect they deserve.

We believe that our diverse staff is the heart of our department. The quality of care, which they convey to our patients, has the far greatest impact on the patients perception of our physicians and department.

We believe that patients and staff flourish in an environment in which the relationship is based on mutual respect, trust and compassion. The ability to remain committed to these goals under difficult conditions is equally important as attaining the maximum technical skill.

We strive at all times to be gracious and accommodating, both to our patients and to our fellow employees, staff, and colleagues. Our philosophic goal is to create a truly “ family” environment at our outpatient center and throughout our department.

It is our desire to have staff members who will work together with a sincere spirit of cooperation, professionalism, dedication, and teamwork. We believe these are key ingredients not only in the success of our department but in promoting a pleasant and rewarding work environment for our staff, residents, and patients as well.

We consider our department to be at the forefront of our profession and have committed great resources to the development and operation of our residency program. Our staff are passionate in their dedication to turning out the best family physicians in our profession. We want to look back with pride in our efforts and provide our residents with all the rewarding experiences of having completed a quality program. Our attending staff is committed to the learning and development of our residents and medical students.We are entirely devoted to the philosophy of Community Oriented Primary Care and the Biopsychosocial model of medicine and expect these concepts to be applied in every preceptor session between residents and attending physicians. They will be expected to manage a wide variety of patients with multiple complex medical problems and treat patients who have experienced many barriers to care including cultural, compliance, educational, language, mental health related, socioeconomic, Our residents routinely have seen pathology that is frequently relegated to the final paragraphs on rare diseases in medical textbooks. Our patient population is very challenging and it is our firm conviction that comfort in managing such complexity creates uniquely gifted physicians who are capable and up to the task of providing healthcare in the 21st century of the new millennium. Our program develops holistic Osteopathic Principles that emphasizes our uniqueness in the health care system. All this accomplished in a department with a uniquely family environment and with the ultimate goal of fostering the qualities required for excellent patient care.