The focus of our curriculum is to provide the opportunity for each resident to maximize their potential by offering a strong core set of experiences while maximizing electives. Our goal is to individualize the curriculum to nurture and develop each resident’s unique knowledge and skill that they bring to the practice of family medicine.

The first year curriculum focuses on inpatient skills and competencies. However, we feel that learning should be a balance between work experience and time to integrate reading and personal health. The first-year curriculum is designed so that there are five months with no call responsibilities and two-and-a-half months of outpatient medicine.

The second- and third-year curriculum focuses on strengthening outpatient skills and the development and implementation of individual learning goals, objectives and practice styles. Emphasis is placed on maximizing elective time and creating opportunities in the Family Medicine Clinic that support individual learning.

We are especially proud of our ability to offer a strong longitudinal experience with the newest addition of sports medicine with two weeks in the first, second and third year of residency. Our other longitudinal experiences include behavioral medicine, geriatrics, genetics, home visits, procedures and community medicine.

UC Davis educators have been the innovators in offering combined programs which bring together two complementary disciplines creating an experience that is more than the sum of its parts. Our combined programs of family medicine and psychiatry, family medicine and obstetrics and family medicine and informatics have been very successful. We are expanding this program to include a new sports medicine track which prepares residents who are considering a sports medicine fellowship and family medicine MBA and family medicine MPH programs.

It is our priority to listen to our residents and build a curriculum that reaches toward the future of family medicine.

The rotations listed below represent a general outline of the UC Davis curriculum. Call varies somewhat from rotation to rotation but is approximately every fourth night.