Welcome to Our Family Medicine Residency - McLaren Flint Program

  • A Message from the Program Director
    Sara Elsayed, MD

    The mission of the Family Medicine Residency at McLaren Flint is to create and nurture learning environments where physicians are inspired to develop expertise in Family Medicine and to dedicate themselves to the care of individuals, families and communities, especially those who are underserved.


    The Family Medicine Residency Program at McLaren Flint facilitates training competent and astute clinicians in order to provide them with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experience needed to provide their patients with the highest standard of care, both in an office-based and hospital-based practice in the community. Core faculty at the Family Medicine Residency Program at McLaren Flint believe in personal, comprehensive and continuing health care of all patients and teach the same value to our learners.

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Accreditation

The McLaren Flint Family Medicine Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Program ID: 1202521573

Primary Training Site

Flint, Michigan

Curriculum

Curriculum

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Rotations

The Family Medicine Residency is on a 4-week block rotation for a total of 13 blocks in each training year.

Longitudinal Experiences

The program has longitudinal experiences built into the curriculum, which include addiction medicine, behavioral medicine, common office procedures, caring for uninsured at the Free Medical Clinic, Carriage Town, Street Medicine and veterans at the VA community-based outpatient clinic, home visits, quality improvement & research, and population health. In addition, we offer Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum (LMRC) which is a comprehensive, applicable, and flexible curriculum that prepares residents to make evidence-based, lifestyle behavior interventions and upon completion of the education and practicum components, residents qualify to sit for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) certification exam.

The program has a strong emphasis on Biopsychosocial approach to medicine for optimal patient care including: dedicated behavioral medicine faculty and fellows to assist residents in diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, longitudinal behavioral medicine curriculum including shadowing and video review.

Our Family Medicine practice also has Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Diabetic Comprehensive Clinic, Integrated Primary Care, OB Clinic, and a General Surgery Clinic.


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