Welcome to an in-depth look at South Texas’ leading Family and Community Medicine Residency Program. Established in 1972, our program has a rich history of training exceptional San Antonio Family Physicians dedicated to delivering comprehensive, family-centered care. We are especially committed to serving the underserved communities within San Antonio and the surrounding counties, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare.
Graduating class of San Antonio Family Physicians from the Family and Community Medicine Residency program at UT Health San Antonio, highlighting the program's commitment to training future family doctors.
Your Path to Becoming a Leading Family Physician in San Antonio
Our residency program is expertly crafted to emphasize the enduring relationships that San Antonio family physicians build with their patients. Residents gain invaluable experience in continuity of care at our state-of-the-art Family Health Center, providing outpatient medical and preventive services. When patients require hospitalization or specialized care, they are seamlessly admitted to The Family Medicine Inpatient Service at University Hospital, consistently recognized as San Antonio’s top-ranked hospital. This direct access ensures our residents are trained in a leading healthcare environment.
As an integral part of UT Health San Antonio, our program offers unparalleled access to the extensive expertise and resources of a renowned university setting. This affiliation fosters close collaboration with various medical specialties and provides enriching interdisciplinary experiences that significantly enhance medical education. Furthermore, our residency program benefits from long-standing connections to university research and policy initiatives. This unique integration allows residents to develop a broader understanding of the systemic issues that impact patient care and the evolving landscape of healthcare for San Antonio family physicians.
At the heart of our program is a deep commitment to teaching, guided by highly skilled and seasoned family medicine physicians. We hold full accreditation from the ACGME and proudly host a robust program with 15 residents in each year of training (PGY1, PGY2, and PGY3), fostering a collaborative and supportive learning environment for future San Antonio family physicians.
Our Mission: Cultivating Balanced and Exceptional Family Physicians
The core mission of the Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is to cultivate well-rounded physicians. We believe that exceptional San Antonio family physicians treat their patients holistically, considering the biological foundations of illness within the context of each patient’s social environment, mental well-being, and spiritual needs.
We encourage our residents and faculty to embrace balanced and healthy lifestyles, recognizing the importance of personal well-being in providing optimal patient care. Our comprehensive training program equips residents to effectively address the diverse primary care needs of the community and to develop the adaptability to thrive in the dynamic and rapidly evolving medical industry. Our residents are trained to provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients across all stages of life, from infancy to geriatrics.
While our training sites are primarily focused on serving an urban, underserved population, the breadth and depth of our curriculum ensure that our graduates are well-prepared to excel in a wide spectrum of practice settings. Whether they choose to remain in San Antonio or practice elsewhere, our residents emerge as highly competent and compassionate San Antonio family physicians.
Our Guiding Philosophy: Integrity, Excellence, and Community Commitment
Our residency training is built upon a strong philosophical foundation that emphasizes:
- Integrity: We instill the paramount importance of adhering to sound moral and ethical principles in every facet of professional practice, recognizing this as the bedrock of exceptional medical care for San Antonio family physicians.
- Excellence: We foster a culture of scholarly pursuit, encouraging residents to focus their academic endeavors on their individual visions for their future practices, pushing the boundaries of excellence in family medicine.
- Commitment to the Community: We immerse our residents in the local community, fostering a deep understanding of and dedication to serving the unique health needs of the population we serve, creating San Antonio family physicians deeply connected to their patients.
- Continuity of Care in Ambulatory Settings: We prioritize hands-on experience from day one, with first-year residents averaging more than two half-days per week at the Family Health Center, building a strong foundation in outpatient care.
- Communication Skills: We recognize that effective verbal and written communication skills are the cornerstone of patient-centered, high-quality medical care, emphasizing their development throughout the program.
- Family Physicians Training Family Physicians: We are proud that 70% of our curriculum is taught by dedicated Family Medicine Faculty, ensuring residents are mentored by experienced practitioners in their chosen field.
Central to our program’s mission is the profound understanding of the pivotal roles of family and community in patient care. We firmly believe that social and psychological factors are as critical as biomedical factors in overall health and well-being. Well-trained San Antonio family physicians from our program are not only skilled clinicians but also effective communicators, wise counselors, and empathetic healers who understand the broader context of their patients’ lives and the diverse health needs of the communities they serve.
