Mission/ Vision
The mission of the University of Rochester/Highland Hospital Family Medicine Department is to train community-oriented family physicians who take an inquiring and compassionate biopsychosocial approach to health care.
Program graduates are clinicians of the highest quality, trained to practice in any geographic location, responsive to the patient’s health care needs and sociodemographic characteristics. We seek to integrate the provision of excellent primary health care services and the support of scholarly inquiry.
Highland Hospital is flourishing as a community hospital in partnership with Strong Memorial Hospital and continues to be an ideal training site for our residents.
We strive for excellence in all the missions of our department. In our new practice site, we offer the highest quality of care using innovations in Primary Care (advanced access, chronic care models, group visits) with a particular focus on providing care to vulnerable and underserved populations, as well as on reducing health care disparities.
Our residency continues to be one of the top programs in the country, offering the best of a university program located at an excellent community hospital. We have strengthened the program with our new clinical sites, expanded our Global Health and Community Medicine programs, and built on our areas of longstanding strength.
We continue to grow our Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care. We play a central role in the development of a new Primary Care Research Institute (within the Center for Primary Care) and are expanding expand our Practice Based Research Network (PBRN).