Family Medicine
Residency Program in West Michigan
The Family Medicine Residency at Trinity Health Muskegon, Graduate Medical Education will embrace a value-based medicine philosophy and will graduate residents with the skills, compassion, empathy and professional approach necessary to positively impact the health of the patients entrusted to our care.
Our curriculum encourages delivery of cost-effective, evidence-based, and timely care for patients and their families. By centering our program on the unique interests and educational needs of our residents, we create a highly tailored training experience. We can achieve these goals by providing care in a broad spectrum of settings including outpatient, inpatient, obstetric, neonatal, geriatric, and sports medicine.
About Our Family Medicine Program
The objective of the Family Medicine Residency program is to train residents in comprehensive, coordinated care of patients throughout every stage of life. Through the residency clinic, the family practice resident works with supervising faculty to provide health care in an outpatient setting.
Our residency clinic, Trinity Health Medical Group Academic Family Medicine – Fruitport (Previously known as Fruitport Family Medicine), is 7,660 square feet and contains 22 patient rooms, including 2 procedure rooms.
The residents have a panel of their own patients they care for during their assigned clinic shifts. The resident's practice consists of adult medical/surgical, pediatric and geriatric patients. This allows the resident to experience continuity of care that will be an integral part of their career as a Family Physician.
The program provides the versatility to residents to receive training in a variety of areas of family medicine. You will also be exposed to a wide variety of procedural experiences including vasectomies, IUD insertions, colposcopies, joint injections, POCUS, skin procedures, and more.
Our clinic also provides prenatal care for expectant mothers. Our physicians will monitor pregnancies throughout the entire course and be present to deliver the newborn at the hospital as well. We perform vaginal deliveries for low-risk pregnancies and will see newborns in the hospital.
The resident is offered the independence of managing and caring for patients in an ambulatory setting with a structured teaching program. Rotations are scheduled to strengthen the resident's learning in the major specialties. Instruction and training in medicine, psychosocial development, physician wellness and practice management are integrated into the curriculum.
The Program retains Osteopathic Recognition for residents seeking additional training in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. We have multiple clinic rooms that have treatment tables and faculty that continue to provide Osteopathic education. We work with the OMM Fellowship program to provide additional educational opportunities.
The 15-resident Family Medicine Program started in 1989. The program meets the training requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for Residency Training in Family Medicine. A full-time director coordinates the program and, along with full and part-time physician faculty, provides the residents with educational leadership.
The residency program is a founding member of the GME Alliance, in affiliation with Michigan State University.
