We teach more than 30 outpatient procedures at the Breton Health Center including sigmoidoscopy, nasolaryngoscopy, dermatological procedures, colposcopy, cryosurgery, and fracture care. As a resident you'll have the opportunity to learn how to manage health care for an entire family, even in the most complex cases. The residency program maintains its own inpatient service dedicated to teaching residents how family physicians work efficiently in the hospital.

In addition to our Statewide Campus System affiliation, through MSUCOM, we are also affiliated with the Grand Rapids Area Medical Education and Research Center (MERC) which offers our residents the opportunity to do rotations at other hospitals in the Grand Rapids area.


All family practice residents establish a profile of patients that they follow throughout the three years of their residency.

PGY 1 Family Practice Emphasis

- 6 weeks Pediatrics
- 6 weeks Obstetrics
- 3 months Internal Medicine
- 1 month ICU
- 1 month General Surgery
- 1 month Emergency Medicine
- 2 months Surgical elective
- 1 half day per week in the Family Practice clinic during the PGY 1 year

PGY 2 & 3 Requirements

- 4 months Internal Medicine
- 2 months Surgery
- 3 months Obstetrics and Gynecology
- 3 months Pediatrics
- 2 months Emergency Medicine
- 3 half days per week in the Family Practice clinic during the PGY 2 year
- 4 half days per week in the Family Practice clinic during the PGY 3 year

Tracks for Residents who want special emphasis in an area include:
Sports Medicine, Obstetrics, OMM

Medicine electives may be chosen from:
Endocrinology, Allergy Immunology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Rheumatology

Surgical electives may be picked from:
Urology, Podiatry, Orthopedics, EENT, Ophthalmology

Electives include:
Sports Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Pain/Wound Management, Risk Management/Practice Management, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Adolescent Medicine

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Family Practice Integrated with Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Residency Program

The Family Practice Integrated with Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Residency is housed in an off-campus ambulatory clinic building. The residency has a fully integrated curriculum/rotation and lecture program. There are two track options within the combined residency - obstetrics and sports medicine. Metro Health Hospital is associated with the Statewide Campus System (SCS) formerly (COGMET) and Michigan State University. This consortium provides ten monthly didactic meeting sessions in Lansing. Affiliated hospitals in Grand Rapids provide rotation flexibility and diversity for the Family Practice rotations required by the residency and Michigan State University's Department of OMM provides support for the OMM rotations required by the residency along with didactic support.