Program Highlights

Curricular Innovation

• Longitudinal Underserved Community Curriculum (LUCC) provides training in community-oriented care, cultural humility, and has been shared as a teaching model for residencies across the country
• Family Medicine Behavioral Health Collaborative Curriculum (FMBHCC) includes longitudinal behavioral health-focused clinical training, experiential workshops, and lectures designed to improve resident comfort in managing behavioral health conditions.

Diverse Cultural Experiences

• Provide care for members of the with Latinx, Bosnian, Somalian, Iraqi, Vietnamese, and other communities in an urban underserved FQHC.

Addiction Medicine Training 

• Residents provide medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to their continuity patients with opioid use disorder in the primary care setting. St. Louis combats opioid crisis.
• Additional addiction experiences include addiction medicine elective, regular addiction-focused didactic lectures, and access to the expertise and experience of the addiction faculty and fellows of SLU’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship.

Academic University-Based Training Program 

• Opportunities to participate in community-based research, with top-notch resources and support from the Department of Family and Community Medicine research staff.

Longitudinal Wellness Program

• Intentional part of our residency culture.
• Emphasis on cultivating relationships includes resident generational families, regular resident support group, biannual team building retreats, and frequent social gatherings/happy hours.
• Regular behavioral health shadowing in clinic helps residents work on time management and patient interactions.
• Longitudinal wellness curriculum includes Balint and support group, regular lectures and experiential learning opportunities through VA Whole Health program, and regular offerings in medical humanism and personal/professional development.

Concentration Tracks 

• For interested residents, optional concentration tracks are available in maternity care, addictions, and sports medicine