Mission
The mission of the Cox Family Medicine Residency is to develop excellent family physicians.
Goals
- Promoting academic excellence and continuous scholarship.
- Developing and promoting family medicine.
- Imparting knowledge, skills, and values necessary to serve the health care needs of persons, families, and communities.
- Delivering innovative, effective, compassionate, and comprehensive health care.
- Creating and sustaining an environment that attracts, develops, and retains the highest quality faculty, residents, and staff.
- Promoting strategies and resources to address the needs of underserved populations.
History
The residency application was submitted to the Residency Review Committee in the fall of 1986, and after a site visit by the committee, the program received standard provisional accreditation in May 1987. The program received full accreditation in February 1993. After recently undergoing a routine site review, we again received full five-year accreditation from the ACGME.
In October 2003, the AAFP Congress of Delegates voted to change the name of the specialty from "family practice" to "family medicine," arguing that the new name would help patients and other physicians recognize family physicians as the medical specialists they are. Therefore, in January 2004, Cox Family Practice Residency became Cox Family Medicine Residency.
Because of abundant patient supply and medical facilities, it was decided to increase the original class size of four residents to six each year. The program is now approved for eight residents per class. Current faculty includes nine family physicians, one obstetrician, one internist, one psychologist and two nurse practitioners. Clinical adjunct faculty includes a pharmacist. There are more than 100 volunteer faculty members in the Springfield and surrounding areas offering a wide variety of practice settings and elective opportunities.
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