Family Medicine Curriculum

The educational programming in the Family Medicine Residency at St. Mary Medical Center/Nazareth Hospital is centered upon a full spectrum approach to the science and art of family medicine. It encompasses the ambulatory care center, the acute care hospital and emergency room settings, and the greater Philadelphia community.

The Family Medicine Center at Bensalem will be the residency “home” where residents will establish themselves as the primary care physicians for a growing panel of patients and families in continuity, learn alongside an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, and gather each week for interactive teaching sessions and skills development workshops.

Within the acute care setting, residents will be integral members of care teams across all medicine and surgical subspecialties be it the mother-baby unit at St. Mary where more than 200 babies are delivered each month, the pediatric emergency room that triages over 17,000 sick children annually, or the inpatient wards and intensive care units at St. Mary and Nazareth Hospitals that share a combined 25,000 inpatient admissions each year. To deliver seamless care for patients and families from our Bensalem office, residents will work with graduated responsibility to staff and supervise the Family Medicine Service at St. Mary Medical Center under the mentorship of residency faculty.

Finally, the Family Medicine residents will step into the community as ambassadors for wellness and health equity through outreach programs to underserved neighborhoods, home visits to post-partum moms and newborns, adoption of religious communities, and eldercare delivery in neighborhood resource centers.

Over the course of the residency training period each experience is designed to build confidence and package the clinical acumen necessary to develop resilient incremental care clinicians readily able to meet the individual and corporate healthcare needs of the community through a provision of comprehensive, deeply compassionate, mission driven care.