McLaren Health Care Corporation-McLaren Bay Region Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLaren Bay Region is a community-based, MSUCOM-affiliated osteopathic Family Medicine program in a semi-rural Great Lakes Bay Region setting, training residents for full-spectrum, community-oriented primary care rather than subspecialty academic medicine. The curriculum layers structured longitudinal tracks in Lifestyle Medicine (with ACLM board-eligibility), OMT, and POCUS onto a broad procedural base (colposcopy, joint injections, skin procedures, obstetrics, Nexplanon/IUD placement), reflecting an identity built around comprehensive outpatient scope rather than inpatient subspecialization. Research is present but auxiliary to clinical training—residents complete one QI and one research scholarly project with dedicated time and mentorship, oriented toward regional presentation venues (MAFP, STFM, Michigan Family Medicine Research Day) rather than high-impact publication. The program explicitly values community service (a free clinic, school sports physicals), continuity-of-care relationship-building, and residents who intend to practice broad-scope family medicine in community or rural Michigan settings after graduation, evidenced by faculty and trainee trajectories toward hospitalist work, rural clinics, obesity/lifestyle medicine, and sports medicine fellowships.