Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) offers a variety of resources and opportunities to its physicians and other health care professionals to help them grow professionally and improve patient care including graduate medical education (GME), continuing medical education (CME) and a medical assistant certificate program.
In today’s dynamic and outpatient-centered health care system, we believe that medical professionals should be exposed to diverse patient populations and clinical problems in a range of settings. Through our medical education programs, FHCSD recruits and trains physicians from diverse backgrounds who are interested in providing care to the underserved communities of San Diego, while providing high-quality, broad-based clinical education and experience.
GME refers to the period of education in a particular specialty (residency) or subspecialty (fellowship) following medical school. The GME department at FHCSD oversees the process in partnership residency departments.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs for physicians in the U.S. It is an independent, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that sets and monitors voluntary professional educational standards that are essential for preparing physicians to deliver safe, high-quality medical care to all Americans.
