Nebraska Medical Center-Clarkson Regional Health Service Program

Program Identity & Fit

Clarkson Family Medicine is a university-affiliated, community-based program rooted in an urban patient-centered medical home in Omaha's Old Market, emphasizing full-scope family medicine across obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and behavioral health integration. The curriculum is broad and individualizable, with a strong procedural backbone (colonoscopy/EGD, colposcopy, joint injections, vasectomy, POCUS) and dedicated rural medicine and community medicine rotations that prepare residents for both urban and rural Mid-America practice. Scholarly activity exists through POCUS projects, community partnerships, and regional presentations (Nebraska AFP, GME research symposium), but the program's orientation is clearly clinical-practice-focused rather than research-driven. Faculty composition (family medicine generalists, several trained within the program itself, a hospice/palliative fellowship-trained faculty, embedded behavioral health PhDs/DSWs) and resident activities (Reach Out and Read, Pride Parade participation, community advisory committee) signal a program that values community engagement, whole-person care, and flexibility to pursue individualized interests like OB, rural health, or women's health.