• Combined Med-Peds and combined faculty-resident practice in the Hoxworth Center at UCMC. Residents work alongside faculty members as partners in the practice, managing their own patient panel from day #1 of residency!
• Outstanding preceptor support!
  • All preceptors are Med-Peds trained and committed to medical education.
  • 19 preceptors including Hoxworth-based faculty, community-based faculty, and 5th-year chief residents
  • Low preceptor to resident ratios ensuring the optimal learning experience.
• Multidisciplinary clinic team provides coordinated, compassionate care for all our patients. Our team includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, clerical support staff, medical assistants, registered nurses, community health workers, RN care coordinator, social worker, lactation support, pharmacists, and a diabetes education team.
• Even balance of pediatric to adult patients, which we intentionally sustain by always remaining open to newborns. Our residents easily meet and exceed the pediatric and internal medicine ACGME clinic requirements!
• Diverse patient population and clinical experiences!
  • Payors mix of 65% Medicaid/Medicare, 30% private insurers, and 5% indigent care.
  • Patient population demographics: 61% black or African-American, 27% white or Caucasian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Other
  • Approximately 10% of clinic visits require an interpreter and our clinic serves a growing Latino population thanks to a few Spanish speaking providers.
  • Transition care site for populations including adults with childhood and congenital diseases such as congenital heart disease, autism, trisomy 21, Williams Syndrome, childhood cancer, type 1 diabetes, IBD, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and many others.
  • Embedded monthly subspecialty clinic in collaboration with pediatric genetics to provide care to adults with neurofibromatosis.
  • Medical home for adults with sickle cell disease.
  • Experiences in telemedicine including:
    • Video clinic visits
    • After-hours clinic call with faculty back-up beginning in the PGY-2 year. Since we know sleep is important, calls stop at 10pm and faculty take over.
  • Group Medical Visits led by clinic faculty with support from the integrative medicine department provide patient-centered care focused on healthy lifestyles, diabetes, chronic pain, and mother/infant recovery. Residents can become certified facilitators for these groups!
• Innovative! We strive to provide patient-centered care and create a medical home for patients. Our clinic is part of the National Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program since 2017 and we are certified by the Centering Health Institute to provide group visits.
• Improvement-Driven! Residents and faculty participate in quality improvement to improve care for our patients. Recent projects include childhood lead screening, lung cancer screening, and pediatric safety screening.

• Residents are partners! From day #1 our residents are partners in our office, providing comprehensive preventive care and chronic disease management of complex adults and children alongside our experienced, top-notch faculty. Residents are truly the primary care physician for their panel of patients (inherited in the PGY-2 year) and are responsible for all aspects of care including clinic visits, results follow-up, and patient phone calls.

Our Ambulatory Medical Education (AME) series includes weekly case-based discussions at the beginning of each clinic session to expose residents to a variety of adult and pediatric outpatient topics. We have thoughtfully constructed this content to ensure residents are exposed to a variety of ambulatory topics over their 4-year residency. Our clinic schedule templates are constructed in a way to prioritize this education time for residents.

We also have multiple noon conferences throughout the year led by our ambulatory faculty. These conferences are focused on a variety of "bread and butter" primary care topics such as well child care, asthma, ADHD, diabetes, billing, and many more!

Primary Care Pathway educational events occur quarterly and topics are selected based on resident interest and input. These events are open to all residents who are interested in additional ambulatory educational experiences.

Our program strives to provide robust, experiential quality improvement training during residency. Our quality improvement education is led by Dr. Abigail Nye who is one of our core faculty members and has advanced training in QI. During clinic blocks and elective rotations, our residents attend weekly quality improvement meetings to learn the foundation and principles of quality improvement and to participate in clinic-based quality improvement initiatives. In recent years, our residents have completed projects focused on improving sexual health screening, childhood lead screening, and lung cancer screening. For the 2025-2026 academic year they will be starting a new project! The topic will be determined based on resident and faculty input, and careful analysis of potential projects through a resident-driven process called "Defense of the Measures". See our quality improvement curriculum page for more information!