The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a component of the University of Texas System and is located on beautiful Galveston Island, Texas. The Department of Family Medicine at UTMB was established in 1971. It was the first academic department of Family Medicine in the state of Texas. Since 1998, the Department of Family Medicine has been chaired by Barbara L. Thompson, MD.
The Residency Program was one of the first in the state and has graduated over 250 residents since accepting the first trainees in 1972. The program director is Lisa R. Nash, DO since 2003.
The program is structured as an 8-8-8 program accredited by the ACGME, for a total of 24 residents in training annually. The curriculum includes a diverse blend of campus and community based experiences to meet training requirements and provide a comprehensive view of contemporary Family Medicine.
A Rural Training Track was added to the program in 2000, located in Weimer Texas, a community with a population of 1800. In 2009 the RRC approved an expansion of the RTT curriculum, which will allow residents to spend approximately the first half of their training at the academic medical center in Galveston and the remainder at the RTT site in Weimar.
The UTMB-FMR curriculum also incorporates the “Integrative Medicine in Residency” curriculum. Residents receive over the course of their training an additional 200 hours of instruction in Integrative Medicine. At the completion of training, graduates qualify to sit for the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine exam.
Additionally, the program achieved certification by the American Osteopathic Association in 2007, qualifying all DO residents to sit for the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians exam.
Other notable features of our program:
• Area of Concentration Programs – an elective written program of individual study
• Maximum number of electives (six) allowed by the RRC for FM
• International Health program and strong history of approved electives for residents
• Behavioral Medicine program – recognized as one of the best examples of an integrated, skills-based curriculum in the nation
• Electronic Resident Portfolio – collection point and tracking mechanism for resident progress through training requirements
• Campus-wide integrated EMR (EPIC)
• Resident Research Program – with 18 national conference presentations and/or publications over the past five years
• Fellowship/Advanced Training – 11 graduates over the past five years have gone on to prestigious fellowships and other advanced training opportunities
For more information about our program, visit us here. Meet residents, alumni, faculty, staff and others on our UTMB Family Medicine Residency group on Facebook!
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Being able to qualify to sit for the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine exam is a notch for me. A conventional treatment coupled with a holistic approach specially in what I do - physical therapy in Texas will help my patients tremendously. They will realize that PTs care for their patients as much as heart specialists and neurosurgeons do!
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