University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based, full-spectrum family medicine residency embedded within OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, giving residents direct exposure to academic subspecialists while training under a Patient-Centered Medical Home model. The program explicitly aims to prepare physicians for rural, suburban, and urban practice across Oklahoma, and structures partnerships with FQHCs and underserved-population clinics to build competency in serving special-needs communities. Distinctive features include in-house fellowship pathways (Sports Medicine), a Global Health Track, a dedicated procedure clinic, and elective depth in sports medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, and pediatrics drawing on OU's subspecialty faculty. The department maintains a visible primary-care-oriented research infrastructure (faculty funded across behavioral health, tobacco cessation, and chronic disease domains) available to residents but not positioned as central to the program's identity, which remains fundamentally geared toward producing broadly competent community-based family physicians.