Family Medicine

Residency Program in West Michigan

Our Family Practice Residency at Trinity Health Muskegon, Graduate Medical Education will embrace a value-based medicine philosophy and will graduate residents with the skills, compassion, empathy and professional approach necessary to positively impact the health of the patients entrusted to our care.

The values we embrace are cost-effective, appropriate and timely care delivered in a professional, empathetic and compassionate fashion that will be of value to our patients, providers and to our payers. We also value meeting the educational needs of our residents. We will structure a program based on the Family Practice Resident's interests and needs.

About Our Family Medicine Program

The focus of the Family Practice Residency program is ambulatory care. Through the residency clinic, the family practice resident works with supervising faculty to provide health care in an outpatient setting.

Our residency clinic, Fruitport Family Medicine, is 7,660 square feet and contains 18 patient rooms, including 13 exam rooms, 2 consult rooms and 2 procedure rooms. 

The resident develops a private practice of their own patients by spending assigned days in clinical appointments. The resident's practice consists of adult medical/surgical, pediatric and geriatric patients.

The program provides the versatility to residents to receive training in a variety of areas of family medicine. You will also be exposed to a wide variety of procedural experience including vasectomies, IUD insertions, colposcopies and skin procedures.

Fruitport Family Medicine also provides prenatal care for expectant mothers. Our physicians will monitor pregnancies throughout the entire course and be present to deliver the newborn at the hospital as well. We perform vaginal deliveries for low-risk pregnancies, and will see your newborn in the hospital and beyond if desired.

The resident is offered the independence of managing and caring for patients in an ambulatory setting with a structured teaching program. Specialty rotations are scheduled to strengthen the resident's learning in the major sub-specialties. Instruction and training in medicine, psychosocial development and practice management are integrated into the curriculum.

The 15-resident Family Practice Program started in 1989. The program meets the training requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for Residency Training in Family Medicine. A full-time director coordinates the program and, along with full and part time physician faculty, provides the residents with educational leadership.

The residency program is a founding member of the Statewide Campus System, in affiliation with Michigan State University.