Our Mission: provide quality, compassionate and cost-effective patient care to our community while training well-rounded family physicians who are able to meet the present and future clinical, educational, and leadership needs in our community and across the nation.
The University of Michigan Health-Sparrow/MSU Family Medicine Residency Program is one of the first Family Medicine Residency Programs to be accredited and established in Michigan and the United States. We are accredited by the ACGME and have earned osteopathic recognition though them. We merge the clinical perspectives and resources of a major community teaching hospital with the academic perspectives and resources of the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University. This blends traditional curriculum structure with longitudinal training themes.
Our program provides cutting edge, premier Family Medicine training for 30 residents each year. Our Family Medicine residents are highly respected throughout the hospital system, and play a critical role in improving the health of the people of Mid-Michigan. Our physicians find that Lansing is not only a desirable location for training but also for future practice destination. Many of our graduates have chosen to stay in the community and practice medicine in the greater Lansing area. More than 50 percent of University of Michigan Health-Sparrow’s Family Medicine Department graduated from either our combined or parent programs.
Each resident is assigned their own panel of patients that they will follow over the course of three years of residency training, maintaining continuity in the care that is provided in both ambulatory and inpatient medical needs. University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Hospital provides an environment that is conducive to learning with exposure to a wide variety of pathologies. We have seasoned board-certified physicians who are committed to meeting and exceeding a resident's personal goals through their teaching while incorporating real world examples for patient care. This enables our residents to become competent, compassionate, respected full-spectrum family physicians.
We have 10 spots per year for new residents and we typically take a 50/50 mix of osteopathic and allopathic graduates.
We hope that the information found here provides a glimpse into the exciting medical education program that we sponsor. The view we’ll provide is that of an innovative, well-established, community-based, dually accredited program designed to allow new physicians to become exactly the kind of doctor they strive to be.
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Meet Our Residents
The residents within our program come from many different places across the globe. We strive to maintain a supportive learning environment that allows our residents to thrive as they learn and practice the art of medicine. Our residents pursue many different types of family medicine practices after graduation; some go directly into traditional outpatient practice, some practice obstetrics within their clinic, and others go on to do fellowships and further specialize.
