Community Health Centers, Inc Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is Utah's first Teaching Health Center GME program, governed directly by a Federally Qualified Health Center rather than a hospital, with a mission explicitly centered on vulnerable, underserved, and Spanish-speaking populations in the Salt Lake Valley. The curriculum is clinic-first, built around a mixed mini-block and longitudinal outpatient model, with continuity clinic at Oquirrh View, inpatient/OB training at unopposed LDS Hospital, and pediatric subspecialty exposure at Primary Children's Hospital, alongside a 25+ year affiliated FM-OB fellowship with the University of Utah. Research is not a structural feature; the program instead emphasizes procedural volume in obstetrics, full-spectrum scope (deliveries, ambulatory pediatrics, behavioral health, street medicine, geriatrics), dedicated medical Spanish training, and readiness for independent rural/underserved practice. Faculty narratives and resident profiles consistently reflect a values-driven culture prioritizing language proficiency, cultural humility, and long-term commitment to community-based, full-spectrum family medicine over subspecialization or academic career paths.