Healthy Rural California, Inc. Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, unopposed, community-based family medicine residency in Chico, California, affiliated with UC Davis and built explicitly around rural and underserved-community healthcare access following the Camp Fire's disruption of regional care. Training centers on Enloe Health (a Level II trauma center with ~1,900 births/year, open ICU, and integrated palliative care) and North Valley Indian Health, giving residents high procedural and obstetric volume, exposure to tribal and medically underserved populations, and roles as the sole house-staff service in the hospital. The program embeds a longitudinal community-health/health-equity project mentored by a former county public health officer, a resident-run street clinic, a mobile clinic to Grindstone Indian Rancheria, and elective pathways in rural and international family medicine (rural Guatemala, rural Northern California mountain towns), signaling a strong full-spectrum, rural/underserved practice orientation rather than a subspecialty research track. The program values residents drawn to hands-on procedural and obstetric breadth, community-embedded public health work, and long-term commitment to rural or underserved practice settings.