Kaiser Permanente Northern California Napa- Solano Program

Program Identity & Fit

Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano is an unopposed, university-adjacent community-based Family Medicine program built around a deep community medicine and global health identity, anchored by continuity clinics at La Clinica de la Raza (an FQHC) and service-based learning across school clinics, shelters, and public health sites. The program invests heavily in full-spectrum obstetrics through a formal Obstetrics Distinction pathway (40+ deliveries baseline, 80+ for distinction, C-section first-assist competency, ALSO instructor certification), signaling a strong maternity/procedural orientation atypical of generalist FM programs. Scholarly activity is longitudinally structured with dedicated didactics, an on-site epidemiologist, and required community-based intervention projects, but the program frames research as integrated scholarship and quality improvement rather than a pipeline to physician-scientist careers. Training within Kaiser's integrated health system emphasizes systems-based practice, team-based care, and preparation for practice in "almost any environment," with global health rotations (Honduras class trip, funded international electives) reinforcing a mission-driven, underserved-care ethos.