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Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority is pleased to announce a new Osteopathic Residency in Family Medicine. Choctaw Nation Family Medicine Residency (CNFMR) is committed train fully competent and compassionate Family Physicians. CNFMR is fully accredited by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Medicine to train physicians to be prepared for board certification.
The program’s philosophy is that Family Medicine is the cornerstone of medical practice. The program is necessarily broad in scope and built upon a core of knowledge and skills derived from traditional osteopathic medical principals and surgical models. This approach is designed to develop a Family Physician that is able to care for the whole person and their family.
Continuous and comprehensive care is an essential longitudinal component of these educational experiences. The resident will be trained to provide acute chronic and preventative care in any setting including ambulatory sites, hospital and long term care facilities. The resident is expected to maintain a continuing physician-patient relationship with a panel of patients throughout their residency experience regardless of what rotation he / she may be on.
The rotations are specifically designed to provide a broad base of patient care experiences with increasing levels of complexity and patient care responsibility. Some of these rotations will involve critical care and other specialties not available on site within Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority. For those rotations the resident physicians will be trained at a tertiary care training hospital facility with an affiliation agreement with CNFMR.