Family Health Centers

Because family medicine is primarily an ambulatory specialty, we consider office hours to be of crucial importance. This philosophy is reflected in the residents’ commitment to maintain office hours on a regular basis. Our residency utilizes a team approach to patient care with the residents organized into group practices. Residents begin their private practice when they start their training. The first-year residents spend one to two half days per week in the office, while second- and third-year residents spend two to four half days per week. Nursing home and home visits with faculty support are also conducted on a regular basis.

Practice management expertise is provided through ongoing residency seminars, a required rotation, and community-wide seminars. Both centers utilize an electronic medical record system, EPIC, that allows residents to have direct access to their patients’ medical record from anywhere in the hospital system. Our program enables residents to effectively utilize consultants and referrals as needed and videotaping facilities are available for residents to hone their interviewing skills.

Our residents often comment that coming to office hours is like “coming home” and provides them with a rich blend of experiences with a continual focus on the care of the family.

The Berry Family Health Center is located on the Miami Valley Hospital campus. With more than 28,000 visits to the Berry Family Health Center annually, there is ample opportunity for gaining ambulatory and practice management experience.

The center includes:

• 18 exam rooms grouped in three distinct pods
• Two special procedure rooms
• A self-contained medical imaging suite staffed by a full-time Radiological Technologist
• Electronic medical records

The Berry Family Health Center also includes state-of-the-art conference facilities and a resident learning center equipped with reference books, computer workstations, and other learning tools. The learning center supplements the many resources available through MVH's outstanding medical library, one of the largest in Ohio.

Take a virtual tour of the Berry Center here.

The Good Samaritan Family Health Center is located on the northwest side of Dayton, one block from Good Samaritan Hospital. The center has been designed to meet the educational needs of our residents as well as our patients’ health care needs. The spacious center includes a reception area, business and records office, preceptor library/office, resident and faculty offices, conference room, procedures/operating suites, nurses station, laboratory and patient education/computer center. The Family Health Center functions as an independent private medical office under the guidance of the family physicians on our teaching staff. Our faculty includes board certified practitioners, who serve as preceptors on a daily basis and practice alongside residents in the health center. Conferences take place in our spacious conference room.

The patient population served by the Good Samaritan Family Health Center is diverse in terms of age, socioeconomic background and ethnic and racial status, providing our residents with a variety of diagnosis and management challenges. A two-week elective is offered to our residents to certify them as physician-office laboratory directors. Our procedure room features colposcopy, laryngoscopy, spirometry and cryotherapy.