Family & Community Medicine Residency

This 900+ bed acute care hospital provides quaternary care for Philadelphia and the surrounding region. The majority of clinical rotations take place at the hospital and its affiliated outpatient practices, including our busy inpatient family medicine service. Located in Center City Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital serves patients from a wide range of socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, providing residents a diverse educational experience.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine manages one of the busiest inpatient services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, admitting patients from Jefferson Family Medicine Associates, the Department's primary Center City practice, as well as affiliated community-based practices. Residents care for patients aged 12 and older, with an average daily census of approximately 18 patients.

As a highly respected service within a collaborative academic medical center, our team works alongside residents and learners from multiple specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiology, and medical student education. This interdisciplinary environment fosters teamwork, communication, and comprehensive patient care.

Multidisciplinary rounds include family medicine faculty and residents, pharmacists, pharmacy residents, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals, providing residents with valuable experience in team-based care.

This 200+ bed hospital, located in the heart of South Philadelphia, serves a diverse population that includes a large Italian-American community and a growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants. Interns spend three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at Methodist Hospital. This ICU experience more closely reflects the type of community hospital setting where family physicians manage patients requiring intensive care.

Nemours Children's Health is a 260-bed pediatric hospital located in Wilmington, Delaware. Family Medicine residents in their first and second years of training rotate at Nemours to gain competency in pediatrics. Second-year residents spend two weeks in the emergency department and five weeks in outpatient pediatrics. First-year residents spend four weeks on the inpatient hospital service and an additional three weeks in outpatient pediatrics.