Henry Ford Providence Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Henry Ford Providence's Family Medicine Residency is a community-based, dual-campus program (Southfield and Novi) that trains residents across two deliberately contrasting continuity settings—an urban/suburban Family Practice Center serving a racially and economically diverse Detroit-area population, and a rural/small-town South Lyon site serving lower-income families and a growing Spanish-speaking population, including the area's only Medicaid-accepting practice. The program's identity centers on broad-spectrum, procedurally engaged full-scope family medicine, reflected in named tracks for Osteopathic Recognition (OMT clinics, monthly didactics, dedicated rotation), Obstetrics (80 deliveries required), Obesity Medicine, and MSK/Sports Medicine (with sideline coverage and sports medicine fellowship affiliation). With roughly half its faculty DO-trained and a sustained 100% board pass rate on AOBFP/ABFM, the program blends MD and DO educational philosophies rather than emphasizing research, and appears oriented toward producing broadly competent generalists and sports/OMT/OB-focused practitioners rather than academic researchers.