Our Vision is To produce broadly-skilled family physicians who empower communities, advance health equity, and inspire the next generation of learners as we support one another.

The Stanford - O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program is part of a long tradition of excellence in the training of Family Medicine residents in the San Jose area since 1977. After previously being sponsored by San Jose Medical Center from 1977 until 2005, our program was approved by the ACGME to begin July 2005 at O’Connor Hospital. In 2017, our program integrated with Stanford Health Care and now affords our trainees a unique opportunity to train at a thriving County-owned community hospital while accessing the educational resources of a world-renowned health system. In 2024, our program expanded from 8-8-8 to 9-9-9 and will have a full 27-resident complement by 2025.

Our mission is to prepare outstanding Family Medicine physicians who can thrive in any practice setting.  

Our FMRP has 5 aims:

1. To provide a collaborative, supportive environment for training future leaders in Family Medicine;

2. To inspire and encourage a commitment to the underserved through the provision of care in our county hospital and Federally Qualified Health Center outpatient clinic;

3. To utilize innovative educational methods that engage and challenge our learners;

4. To maintain a strong & diverse faculty with expertise in a wide range of fields and who model full-spectrum family physicians; and

5. To model the practice of sustainable, lifelong family medicine that optimally uses the health care team to provide excellent patient-centered care while protecting physician well-being.

REcognition of racism

The Stanford-O'Connor Family Medicine Residency Program recognizes the destructive and pervasive effects that racism, including discriminatory policing and discrimination within the health care system, has had on Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color for hundreds of years.  Racism is a public health crisis that manifests itself in the poorer health and economic outcomes of people of color in our society -- including higher rates of chronic diseases and mortality from COVID-19, increased maternal and infant mortality rates, and wealth gaps and disparate incarceration rates.  The scourge of racism affects our patients, colleagues, loved ones, and ourselves.

We are only as good as our own individual beliefs and actions; we must understand and work together to create and sustain a culture of trust whereby we treat one another with empathy, kindness, and respect.  We are fully committed to confronting the institutional and systemic racism that continues to exist in our country, and to using our family medicine training and skills to address inequalities and work toward a more equitable and just society for all.  We are in full support of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ statement condemning all forms of racism found here.

LAND USE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

On-Call at O'Connor

One of the great things about being on call at O’Connor Hospital is that you get to do it all – delivering babies, admitting patients, responding to codes, checking on that kiddo on the peds floor – often all in the same night!