McLaren Health Care Corporation-McLaren Flint Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLaren Flint's Family Medicine Residency is a community-based, MSU-affiliated program built around underserved and safety-net care, with residents rotating through the Genesee County Free Medical Clinic, Carriage Town, Street Medicine, and a VA community-based outpatient clinic alongside core inpatient and obstetric training at McLaren Flint and Hurley Medical Center. The curriculum layers a longitudinal Biopsychosocial/behavioral medicine track, a Lifestyle Medicine curriculum leading to ABLM eligibility, and dedicated procedural competencies (joint injections, newborn circumcision, OB deliveries) onto standard family medicine rotations. Scholarly activity is structurally required rather than incidental - every resident completes both a QI and a research project, with a track record of national FMX poster and presentation awards - reflecting a program that values applied, practice-based scholarship over bench research. Graduates disperse broadly into community outpatient practice, hospitalist roles, and fellowships (EM, geriatrics, OB/GYN), consistent with a program oriented toward producing versatile full-spectrum family physicians for underserved Michigan communities.