Home | Goals of the Program | Curriculum | Compensation and Benefits | Faculty | Residents | Family Care Clinic | Community Description | Application Process | Interview Information | Clerkship | Additional Program Information | UC Davis Family Practice Network | Videos
The Family Care Clinic is located on 13th Street, near downtown Merced. It contains twenty examination rooms and a minor surgery and procedure room. The clinic has a center room designed for team-based care and teaching. The residents work with advanced practice providers, clinical social workers, support staff, and nurses helping to provide continuity of care.
There are opportunities to learn many procedures including lesion removal, joint injections, placement of IUD and Nexplanon. Family Care offers a skin care clinic run by a faculty with years of experience managing dermatologic conditions that has offered access to patients in the community that have Medicaid. We also provide vasectomy and circumcision. Other services that we offer to our patients include comprehensive perinatal care where the resident will provide prenatal care, deliver the baby at the hospital and follow up both for subsequent postpartum care and well child care. The clinic has behavioral health services on site in which our residents can provide a warm handoff to the clinical social worker. We also provide Medication-Assisted Therapy to our patients with substance use disorders.
During their three years in the Family Care Clinic, residents will develop a panel of patients and provide the full spectrum of family practice care. It is one of the joys of residency training to learn what it means to be a "family doctor" and provide personalized care to patients and their families. There is a great diversity of patients from all walks of life and cultures, which adds to the experience. Residents spend one to three half-days a week in the clinics as a first year resident, three to four half-days a week as a second year resident, and four to five half-days a week as a third year resident.
The Family Care Clinic is the real hub of the residency experience in Merced!
