St. Mary Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Mary Medical Center's Family Medicine Residency is a new, mission-driven, community-based Catholic health system program serving Bucks County and northeast Philadelphia through a continuity clinic in Bensalem, a township marked by high foreign-born and non-English-speaking populations. Training spans a full-spectrum ambulatory-to-inpatient model, including a high-volume mother-baby unit, a pediatric emergency room seeing over 17,000 visits annually, and a combined 25,000 inpatient admissions across St. Mary and Nazareth Hospitals, with graduated responsibility for staffing the Family Medicine Service. Research is encouraged to meet ACGME requirements (case reports, QI projects, M&M conference) but is not a program hallmark. The stated selection philosophy emphasizes intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and purpose-driven, mission-oriented motivation over pedigree, with heavy emphasis on community outreach (home visits, eldercare, religious-community partnerships) as core resident identity.