Santa Clara Valley Healthcare Program

Family Medicine Analyst Verified · Sep 18, 2026

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare Program

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare Program is a residency program specializing in Family Medicine, located in San Jose, California, directed by Grace C. Yu, MD and coordinated by Diep Nguyen. The program accepts applications through September 28, 2027 and holds an accreditation status of Continued. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at diepnguyen01@hhs.sccgov.org or (408) 283-7767. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

Santa Clara Valley Healthcare Family Medicine Residency is a mission-driven, safety-net program newly transitioned to ACGME sponsorship under Santa Clara Valley Healthcare while retaining an academic affiliation and shared faculty development pathways with Stanford. Residents train unopposed at O'Connor Hospital and Regional Medical Center within a large county system serving nearly one in four county residents, combining public-system scale with a community-feel, continuity-oriented culture. The program is built around named tracks rather than a single research mandate: Health Equity 2.0, Advanced Maternity Care (with defined delivery and L&D-hour thresholds), POCUS (longitudinal, device-equipped), Integrative Medicine (via the Andrew Weil Center), and OSLER for residents pursuing academic medical education and clinician-educator careers. It appears to value residents who will engage deeply with underserved, equity-focused care and who will commit to a structured pathway with a capstone or scholarly product rather than open-ended research.

Who it fits

A mission-aligned applicant with demonstrated commitment to underserved/safety-net care, health equity advocacy, or full-spectrum family medicine (including obstetrics) who wants a structured pathway to deepen a specific interest such as maternity care, POCUS, integrative medicine, or medical education.

Research intensity

Moderate - scholarly capstone/QI projects and educational research are structured into pathways (OSLER, Health Equity, Advanced Maternity Care) but the program is not positioned around research as its core identity.

Career orientation

Mixed - Community Practice, Fellowship, Academic Medicine

Important

The Advanced Maternity Care Pathway requires residents to declare interest at the start of PGY-2 and requires ALSO certification along with meeting specific delivery and labor-and-delivery hour thresholds; the OSLER pathway involves a formal application/selection process tied to teaching Stanford medical students and completing an educational scholarly project.

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Family Medicine

Deadline 09/28/2027

355 days left

Accreditation Status Continued

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VISA POLICY

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GRADUATION CUT OFF

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ECFMG CERTIFICATE

PROGRAM MISSION STATEMENT

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