The Family Medicine Residency Program at Medical City Fort Worth is defended to training family physicians who are splendid clinicians, community and national leaders, and advocates of health care in North Texas. Our core goal is to reduce wellness disparities and improve health in our urban and suburban patient population.

Program Description

Our ACGME accredited Family Medicine Residency Plan with Osteopathic recognition is committed to coming together the healthcare needs of patients in our metropolitan community with particular accent to those in urban and underserved populations of Fort Worth with a primary focus on providing care to those that are under-insured or uninsured. Texas has a shortage of primary care physicians, in a 2018 United Health Foundation, there were 156.7 agile main care physicians per 100,000/population. Many, if not virtually of the counties in Texas take health professional shortage areas (HPSA) or medically underserved areas (MUA) within them.

Interns at the hospital

In this plan, residents will learn to evaluate, manage a wide variety of medical issues regardless of diagnosis, gender, age of the patient or severity of disease, while adhering to the standards of care in a model family medicine setting. Residents will have the opportunity to larn mutual inpatient procedures such as key line placement, ventilator management, intubations and mutual outpatient procedures such as do stress test, EKG, spirometry, talocrural joint branchial index, musculoskeletal ultrasound, joint injection, soft tissue injection, IUD insertion, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, Nexplanon insertion, skin biopsy, pocket-size part surgery, audiogram, tympanogram, osteopathic manipulative treatment, nervus blocks, and prolotherapy.

Schedule

The program length is 36 months, consisting of 39 4-week clinical and educational blocks with a focus on both inpatient and outpatient setting. The training occurs in hospitals, convalescent clinic, community health centers, and private offices of community attention physicians. Ambulatory clinical training will take identify at a model family unit practise clinic located in Fort Worth and an easy 15-minute commute to the hospital for residents and patients. The ambulatory dispensary experience volition provide the resident with a continuing care exposure to a console of individual and government assisted patients. A cadre of full time board‐certified family unit physician faculty supervises all the resident's clinical encounters.

Interns enjoying a cookout

Commencement-year residents (interns) will spend 1 half‐solar day of family medicine continuity clinic per calendar week in the ambulatory dispensary. PGY2-iv residents will spend on average three half days per week in the convalescent dispensary. The interns and resident's skills and cognition will exist evaluated using ACGME canonical competency-based evaluation system. This program is provided in affiliation with the University of Due north Texas Health Scientific discipline Center, Texas Higher of Osteopathic Medicine.

Continuity Clinic Locations

UNT Health Seminary Drive/Family Medicine Clinic

UNT Health Seminary Drive Family Medicine Clinic is organized to support family medicine resident continuity of care preparation. The clinic is located at 855 Montgomery Street. The Family Medicine Dispensary has been serving our patients in Fort Worth since the 1960s. The patient population varies in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and maternity care. The dispensary is a single family medicine group practice without other specialty competition on site. Our physicians, nurse practitioners, chemist, behavioral wellness specialist, social worker and clinical staff provide lifelong primary care for adults and children of diverse ages, gender, and ethnicities, offering a team approach to healthcare. The clan with UNT Health Science Centre has allowed the dispensary to stay technologically advanced with modern tools and equipment in order to better teach our residents and medical students as they set for the practice of medicine in the hereafter.

UNT Wellness Pavilion

UNT Health Pavilion serves every bit an additional continuity clinic site for the integrated FM/ONMM resident program. This plan is now dually accredited by AOA and ACGME. The plan director is Dr. David Mason. The clinic is located at 855 Montgomery Street on the campus of UNT Health Science Center. The wellness pavilion has been serving our patients in Fort Worth since 2000. Our physicians, md assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacist, social worker, behavioral wellness specialist and clinical staff provide lifelong primary treat adults and children of various ages, gender, ethnicities and healthcare disparities. Offering a team approach to healthcare, the pavilion offers additional specialty care onsite to best serve our patients.

Salary and Stipend

PGY 1: $54,267
PGY two: $56,819
PGY 3: $58,587

On-call meal allowance: $950

Interns at state fair of Texas

Benefits

  • 401k option
  • Health insurance
  • 20 days paid vacation
  • Complimentary parking
  • Online library access through UNT Health Science Center
  • Access to highly-acclaimed enquiry mentors and enquiry resource

Amenities

  • On-phone call meal allowance paid twice a year
  • 3 white coats per year and/or embroidered jacket.
  • Free dry out cleaning for white coats

Audience Rotation Requests

If you are a medical student looking for an audition rotation, please get to the Medical City Fort Worth student page and use through Clinician Nexus.

Awarding Procedures

Medical City Fort Worth will fill three PGY 1 positions. Residency candidate applications are accustomed through ERAS (#1204800712) from June to Jan. Audition rotations are scheduled from late August through early January.

Contact Us

Program Director: Esiquiel Olivarez, Do

Residency Coordinator: Kimberly Warfield, C-TAGME
Email Kimberly Warfield

UNT Health Seminary Clinic
855 Montgomery Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107

Office: (817) 735-2549
Fax: (817) 923-5381