Family and Community Medicine Residency Program

Letter From Our Director

Our program is one of the oldest in the country and continues to train outstanding family physicians. Our over three hundred graduates work in every imaginable practice setting - from rural areas to the inner city, East Coast to the Pacific, suburban group practices to managed care settings, as well as in many academic positions. We have a long list of distinguished graduates, including exceptional clinicians, faculty members, researchers, program directors, and chairpersons - all across the country.

These are exciting times in our department. University Family Medicine (our family health center) is a model site where faculty, residents and medical students see patients side by side. We care for a diverse group of people, both ethnically and economically. We care for the 5,000 students in the professional schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The Department of Family and Community Medicine plays a large role in the education of medical students, and has the highest rated required third year clerkship in the medical school.

We are prepared to meet the training needs of the next generation of family physicians. In addition to our program's expertise in urban health care, our residents benefit from the combination of a university setting with community-based hospital rotations. Our 26 residents and 14 full-time faculty are a talented group of men and women with a rich mixture of ethnic diversity and academic interests. Six of our faculty, incorporate obstetrics as part of our practice, giving our residents many positive role models.

The Department sponsors 2 fellowship programs. I am the Fellowship Director for the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship which is co-sponsored by Union Memorial/ Medstar Hospital. Dr. Beth Barnet is the Director of our Research fellowship co-sponsored with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics - in which fellows obtain their Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Our residents receive a global exposure to all aspects of family medicine. They truly benefit from the "best of both worlds"- the academic aspects of the university and the real world practice of the community. We welcome the opportunity to show you personally why the University of Maryland continues to be one of the premier American training programs in family medicine.

Sincerely,

Yvette L. Rooks, M.D., CAQ FAAFP
Residency Director

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

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