The San Jose-O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program is an “8-8-8″ residency program, meaning it is comprised of 8 residents in each of their 3 years of training – 1 year of Internship followed by 2 additional years of residency. This is, of course, after a minimum of 4 years of medical school. Residents are trained to become community physicians skilled at caring for all age groups of patients – from newborn to the elderly. Residents are also trained to deliver babies, assist surgeons, and care for patient admitted to the hospital. Residents are recruited from medical schools all over the United States, and the 8 residents selected each year are selected from a pool of several hundred qualified applicants.
The residents are trained by physician-educators (known as “faculty”) with a wealth of clinical and educational expertise. The Program Director is Robert Norman, MD, a past-graduate of the program. The Family Medicine Associates of San Jose (FMASJ) faculty consists of 11 board-certified Family Physicians, 1 Family Nurse Practitioner(FNP)/Physician Assistant (PA-C)/Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), and 1 Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Their expertise is broad-based, covering such areas as:
- Adolescent Medicine
- Behavioral Science
- Cardiology
- Counseling Techniques
- Epidemiology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Gynecology
- Headache Management
- Infectious Disease
- Informatics (computer and PDA use in medicine)
- Obstetrics
- Orthopedic and Sports Medicine
- Patient Education
- Procedural Medicine
- Public Health
- Tropical Medicine
- Women’s Health
These physicians have trained over 160 local Family Physicians in the skill and art of Family Medicine – perhaps even your own, local family doctor.
Patients may set appointments with resident-physicians at the O’Connor Family Health Center and receive medical care from young, bright, eager, highly-trained, and supervised resident physicians.
