Family Medicine
Welcome to the Family Medicine Residency Program website at Kaweah Health
in Visalia, California. We are a well established Family Medicine program
in the great Central Valley of California located about 40 miles south
of Fresno and approximately 70 miles north of Bakersfield. Kaweah Health's
Family Medicine Residency program can be located in ERAS and NRMP using
the following name: [1200500714] Kaweah Delta Health Care District (KDHCD)
Program (Family Medicine).
We are based in a large community hospital which is quickly growing into
a state-of-the-art teaching center in medically underserved Tulare County.
Kaweah Health was granted institutional accreditation by the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in July 2011. Six residency
programs were since accredited – Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine,
Psychiatry, Surgery, Transitional Year, and Anesthesia - and have all
welcomed residents to the District. The Family Medicine Residency is now
at full complement as a 7-7-7 program.
A newly constructed Family Medicine Center, allows our residents to learn
medicine while serving a deserving underserved community. It is part of
Kaweah Health’s primary care and multi-speciality healthcare clinic
system, and our residents are caring for patients from throughout Tulare County.
You will enjoy working with a team of outstanding physicians in the field
of Family Medicine. You will become equipped to practice in any clinical setting.
Our Family Medicine faculty is joined by a multitude of enthusiastic specialities that welcome a nurturing learning environment that help produce extraordinary Family Medicine physicians. We take pride and ownership with our unopposed inpatient teaching service. Our large network of physicians and residents continually respect and support our Family Medicine program as a stronghold in our community
Should you meet our criteria, we encourage you to apply to our program
in the fall through ERAS as we begin accepting applications for interviews
for the next incoming class.
Please explore the links on this site to find out more about Kaweah Health,
Visalia, Tulare County, and this part of the great State of California.
Thank you so much for your interest in our program!
