Residency Mission and Goals

The mission of the Residency Program is to train family physicians to practice the full scope of family medicine with an attitude of critical inquiry, a family and community focus, and a commitment to social justice. Program goals and objectives are based on the core values of: Excellence in Clinical Care, Collaboration, Humane Educational Environment, Critical Inquiry, Diversity/Multiculturalism, and Social Justice. Specifically, our residency strives to provide:

• A supportive learning environment that fosters scholarly inquiry by students, residents and faculty.
  • Family medicine residents with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes for providing primary health care to patients in the context of their families and community.
  • An exemplary health care delivery system, which residents may emulate in their future practices. Evidence-based health care is patient centered, family oriented and community responsive. Essential elements of this model include continuity of care, availability and accountability of care, and integration of biomedical, cultural and psychosocial factors.
  • Health care is provided by a team of physicians, nurses, clinical pharmacist, social workers and family therapists, and a nutritionist.
  • Residents with an understanding of the economic and political forces that influence the ever-changing practice of medicine.
  • An environment which fosters healthy personal growth and support for residents and their families.
  • An environment conducive for practice and community-based research.
• Opportunities for graduates to become family physicians in the State of Connecticut.