St mary hospital and medical center program family medicine residency

Post-doctoral training has been part of St. Mary’s tradition since 1904. To this day we provide compassionate care to the Bay Area community, including the urban underserved. Our residents and faculty are a diverse group who reflect the multi-cultural and multi-racial patient population of the Bay Area. The Internal Medicine residency is a highly collegial program that strives to combine the best educational aspect of both community hospital and major academic medical center settings. Maintaining a collaborative and supportive teaching environment that fosters learning and equips our residents with the skills necessary to become expert internists is, and remains, our primary goal.

Program Highlights

• 100% ABIM Board pass rate
• 100% Fellowship Match rate
• Full ACGME accreditation with zero citations
• A multi-ethnic socio-economically diverse patient population
• An academic environment in a community setting enhanced by our affiliations with UCSF, Stanford University and Creighton Schools of Medicine
• Training in an X+Y schedule that allows for immersion into the ambulatory portion of your training throughout the year
• A flexible curriculum and diverse training sites in community, university and county hospital settings
• Individualized training that facilitates optimal career planning and competitive primary care, hospitalist and fellowship placement
• A mentorship program with faculty who is available to personally assist with professional advice and support
• Strong support for scholarly activity, research and participation in hospital-wide quality measure improvement projects and opportunities to present at regional and national meetings
• Dedicated quality improvement curriculum with planning and implementation seminars scheduled on academic half-days 
• Opportunities to participate as hospital committee members and acquire skills for future leadership roles
• Access to the UCSF library
• Inpatient ward teaching service staffed 24/7 by dedicated in-house UCSF-hospitalist faculty and dedicated critical care faculty
• Educational leave 
• Outstanding sub-specialty and general internal medicine faculty who work one-on-one with housestaff during elective and required specialty rotations
• In-house ACP board prep course for internal medicine board examination
• Social activities and services that promote wellbeing
• A resident run wellbeing committee 
• A global health curriculum sponsored by Dignity Health 
• Dedicated POCUS procedural training and Code Blue skills workshops 

St. Mary's Medical Center sponsors accredited residency programs in three specialties – internal medicine, orthopedics and podiatry. Please visit the specific program you are interested in to learn more.

St. Mary's Offers Three Residency Programs

When you join one of our residency programs, you become a member of one of the largest hospital systems in the nation and the largest not-for-profit acute care provider in California. And you will practice in a warm and supportive environment where you can grow professionally and personally.

St. Mary’s offers three residency programs. More comprehensive information on each is coming soon:

• Internal Medicine Program 
• Orthopedics Program
• Podiatry Medicine and Surgery Residency Program

For More Information

If you need more information about the residency programs offered at St. Mary’s Medical Center, please call (415) 750-5781.

Columbia St. Mary's Family Residency Program Ending

Our last class of Columbia St. Mary's Family Medicine residents began on July 1, 2022. Thank you to all the faculty and staff who have contributed to this highly successful program!

MCW Family Medicine Residency Programs Accepting Applications for the 2023-24 Academic Year

Note: North Side Family Residency Residency Program will be in ERAS starting approximately November 1 (shortly after 10/28/22).

Learn more about our residency programs

Dear Future Family Physician,

I would like to welcome you to the St. Mary Mercy Hospital Family Medicine Residency and I thank you for showing interest in our program! Please review the information on the website as you explore options for a future residency program. We are a community based program affiliated with Trinity Health St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, MI. The residency’s outpatient clinic, the Trinity Health Academic Family Medicine- Northwest Livonia (formerly Center for Family Care), is in close proximity to the hospital, making it an easy commute to most rotations.

The residency program is geared towards the way most Family Physicians practice today – in the outpatient setting with ability to practice in-patient medicine/urgent care or pursue fellowship upon graduation. We provide a broad scope of experiences that is needed to practice family medicine.

Our faculty our invested in each resident's education. The faculty physicians are board certified in Family Medicine, staff the in-patient/outpatient service, and additionally two of our faculty are certified in Obstetrics. We have a unique integration with pediatrics as we have a Core Faculty board certified Pediatrician who conducts clinic in the same location as the residency clinic which allows for a well-rounded pediatric experience. All faculty are dedicated to providing residents with educational opportunities that will allow them to practice independently and excel in their chosen scope of practice.

Our goal is for each resident to achieve their career goals. Each resident has a faculty advisor and with help from our behavioral specialist along with program leadership we help residents achieve their professional goals.

We value quality patient care and strive to provide our patients with affordable, high-quality medical care in a comfortable, patient-centered environment. Our residents and faculty work with our staff to provide the best team-based care for our patients of diverse backgrounds and truly approach each patient with compassionate understanding.

With that in mind, the mission of the St. Mary Mercy Family Medicine Residency Program is to:

1. Develop the full potential of Family Physicians to provide excellent medical care for families and individuals in the community,
2. Maintain and advance the highest standards of the specialty of Family Medicine, and
3. Derive a high level of success and satisfaction from the practice of Family Medicine

We are excited to have you consider our program as your “home away from home” for the next three years and look forward to meeting you in the future!

Charan Cheema, DO
Family Medicine Program Director