Honor Community Health (Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network)
The mission of the Family Medicine Residency program at Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network (dba Honor Community Health) is to educate its graduates to be competent, caring, dedicated, and effective Family Physicians. The program strives to train residents to develop the required knowledge, skills, procedural competency and scholarly activity in a community-based setting with a focus on providing care and improving health outcomes for the diverse and medically underserved community of Pontiac through a compassionate, patient-centered, evidence-based, socially responsible and culturally sensitive approach.
Program Aims:
1. To provide comprehensive health maintenance and continuing medical care to entire family units.
2. To acquire the scientific and humane concepts of family medicine as derived from other medical and non-medical sources, as well as the growing body of knowledge developed by family medicine research.
3. To educate patients on the essentials of routine health maintenance and good health care practices.
4. To assume an advocate's role with respect to problems of patients and families.
5. To assume a community orientation to one's practice, factoring in the social determinants of the health of the population served, wherein patients are a part of the larger community's concerns and needs.
6. To address the needs of the patients and the health disparities in the community through the provision of easy access to high quality, evidence-based, cost-conscious healthcare with an emphasis on patient safety and improved health outcomes.