Family and Community Medicine Residency Program

Clinical Settings & Facilities

The University of Maryland's Family Practice residency combines a university hospital setting with support from community hospitals and other facilities for a well-rounded experience.

The central focus is UFM, where patients are seen in state-of-the-art examining rooms. Facilities are available for office laboratory studies and a variety of procedures. We divide residents and faculty into three practice teams, each with their own patients, examining rooms, nursing, and medical records personnel.

Many of our rotations take place at Union Memorial Hospital. This modern, 400-bed community hospital offers a large full-time staff of well-qualified internists and sub-specialists. The Family Medicine residents make up one of the Internal Medicine teams. Our second year residents function as supervising residents in Internal Medicine, including serving as Medical Admitting Officer when they are on-call.

Similarly, rotations in Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ambulatory Geriatrics, Surgery and its sub-specialties, are mixed throughout the University and community hospitals. Many of our rotations in the third year are based in physician's offices in the community.

University Family Medicine serves patients with all types of insurance. We have been the leader in bringing managed care to the University of Maryland and we participate in several managed care programs in an IPA model. We also see a large number of patients with Medical Assistance, Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and other commercial insurance carriers. Residents get a great deal of experience in dealing with the many issues associated with various insurance carriers.

This page was last updated on: November 21, 2007.

For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).