The mission of the Family Medicine Residency program at Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network (dba Honor Community Health) is to educate its graduates to be competent, caring, dedicated, and effective Family Physicians. The program strives to train residents to develop the required knowledge, skills, procedural competency and scholarly activity in a community-based setting with a focus on providing care and improving health outcomes for the diverse and medically underserved community of Pontiac through a compassionate, patient-centered, evidence-based, socially responsible and culturally sensitive approach.
Program Aims:
1. To provide comprehensive health maintenance and continuing medical care to entire family units.
2. To acquire the scientific and humane concepts of family medicine as derived from other medical and non-medical sources, as well as the growing body of knowledge developed by family medicine research.
3. To educate patients on the essentials of routine health maintenance and good health care practices.
4. To assume an advocate's role with respect to problems of patients and families.
5. To assume a community orientation to one's practice, factoring in the social determinants of the health of the population served, wherein patients are a part of the larger community's concerns and needs.
6. To address the needs of the patients and the health disparities in the community through the provision of easy access to high quality, evidence-based, cost-conscious healthcare with an emphasis on patient safety and improved health outcomes.
Welcome to the Family Medicine Residency Program at Honor Community Health!
I am honored and excited to introduce you to our Family Medicine Residency Program here at Honor Community Health. As Michigan’s first and only Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) residency program, we have a true passion for and take great pride in delivering excellent care to patients in underserved communities like ours in Pontiac, Michigan.
While we are a nascent program that just received ACGME accreditation in 2023, we are led by those who have much experience in directing and conducting family medicine residency programs and community health centers for many years.
Our Family Medicine Center has been the primary care home for family medicine residents for a very long time, as well.
Receiving HRSA Teaching Health Center grants and ACGME accreditation were monumental steps in what we see as a critical part of the solution of primary care clinician shortages, especially in communities of most need. We aim to train and graduate excellent, competent, compassionate physicians who share our dedication to underserved communities and are driven by a mission to serve.
Our residents and faculty enjoy and contribute to a supportive and collegial environment throughout the educational experience here. Patients and staff benefit from collaborative approaches to care, which include invaluable work from many physicians and other clinicians, behavioral health consultants, community health workers, a dental team, school-based sites, community outreach, resources for those experiencing houselessness, innovative initiatives in maternal child health, and much more. We have partnerships with nearby hospitals and private physician practices to create optimal learning experiences for our residents.
Thank you for stopping by to learn more about our program! We hope that it sparks curiosity, interest, and dedication to shared missions.
Sincerely,
Jason Ramos, MD, FAAFP
Program Director