McLaren Health Care Corporation-McLaren Macomb Program

Program Identity & Fit

McLaren Macomb's Family Medicine Residency is a community-based, osteopathically-affiliated (MSUCOM) program with a 25+ year history of training generalist family physicians for practice across the full spectrum of settings, from rural to urban. The clinical identity centers on continuity-based outpatient care at the Family First clinic (a PCMH) alongside a distinctive Medical Outreach Mobile Clinic serving uninsured and indigent populations, reflecting an explicit institutional mission to serve the underserved. Research is present but not central—residents complete scholarly/QI projects, poster presentations, and CITI/IRB training, but the program's identity is clinical and community-service oriented rather than academic. With 10 months of elective time in PGY2-3, the program emphasizes individualized training and procedural autonomy, and graduate outcomes are overwhelmingly community/private practice placements with only occasional fellowship (sports medicine, sleep medicine, OMM).