Kaiser Permanente Northern California San Jose Program

Program Identity & Fit

Kaiser Permanente San Jose Family Medicine is a young, community-based program (first class 2018) embedded in the large integrated Kaiser Permanente Northern California system, built around an outpatient-clinic-focused, 2-week block hybrid curriculum designed for frequent feedback and full-spectrum family medicine training. The program explicitly frames its mission around training physicians comfortable with underserved and vulnerable populations, cultural humility, and health equity advocacy, with dedicated Community Medicine, Global Health, and Addiction Medicine rotations plus a Procedure Clinic block indicating a deliberate push toward broad scope-of-practice competency. Research and scholarly work are institutionally supported through KPNC's Division of Research, biostatistical consulting, and an annual SCOPE symposium, but the curriculum's structure and emphasis on leadership, teaching, and community advocacy point toward a program oriented primarily around producing clinically versatile, community-engaged family physicians rather than subspecialty-bound researchers. The program values residents who see themselves as innovators and future teachers willing to "blaze a trail," within a collaborative, specialist-supported Kaiser care model.