PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The F&MCW Forest Home Health Center in Milwaukee, WI is a brand-new, state of the art facility designed to provide health care to the community and education to family physicians. Services provided in the building include Family Medicine, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health, Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder, Osteopathic Manipulation, Refugee Care, Community-Based Research and Community Programming with an emphasis on care for Spanish-speaking populations. The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Family and Community Medicine has a fifty-year history of training family physicians in the Milwaukee area and beyond, to provide this type of care. In partnership with Froedtert Hospital, the region’s only Academic Health Center, family medicine residents can expect a broad and rich experience with learning opportunities across the spectrum of care, specifically dedicated toward learning the aspects of care most important to our patients and communities.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Welcome! I am the program director at Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin’s (MCW) South Side Family Medicine Residency Program. We are thrilled to be training family medicine residents at the Forest Home Health Center. We are located in the heart of Milwaukee’s 53204 zip-code, home to one of the city’s largest Latino/a populations. Our clinic is an ideal place to learn and practice family medicine! This health center also provides a crucial link in the community to the region’s only Academic Medical Center, long recognized for its innovation and clinical excellence.

Our primary goal is to provide community-centered primary care training that is culturally appropriate for Milwaukee and Milwaukee’s South Side community. Our faculty have years of experience training residents and we all have different areas of expertise, but most of all we know what it takes to provide excellent medical education and clinical care. We are passionate about improving the health of our community and hope to foster that in our residents. Our program is adaptable and allows residents to learn the core principles of family medicine while having the opportunity to focus on specific areas they might want to highlight in future practice.

We also prepare residents entering challenging practice settings, including caring for Spanish-speaking patients in their native language. Our residency program’s website is the first one in the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospital (MCWAH) programs to be fully translated into Spanish! This is something we are very proud to offer to applicants.

Our recruitment season for residency applicants runs annually from September-February. Through partnerships with Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin, residents access the highest level of academic and clinical resources, while remaining based in a community setting. Working in conjunction with our Patient and Community Advisory Board, additional local community partnerships are a key to our success as a residency program and health center.

Residents participate in inpatient rotations at Froedtert Hospital, the region’s only academic medical center, and Children’s Wisconsin. Outpatient rotations including resident continuity clinic will occur at Forest Home Health Center, where residents build their own patient panels and learn what it really means to care for the community.

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about the Froedtert & MCW South Side Family Medicine Residency Program. I look forward to speaking with you soon!

Sabrina Hofmeister, DO, FAAFP
Program Director, F&MCW South Side Family Medicine Residency
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

PROGRAM DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Our primary goal is to provide community-centered primary care training that is culturally appropriate for Milwaukee and Milwaukee’s South Side community. Our faculty have years of experience training residents and we all have different areas of expertise, but most of all we know what it takes to provide excellent medical education and clinical care. We are passionate about improving the health of our community and hope to foster that in our residents. Our program is adaptable and allows residents to learn the core principles of family medicine while having the opportunity to focus on specific areas they might want to highlight in future practice.

We also prepare residents entering challenging practice settings, including caring for Spanish-speaking patients in their native language. Our residency program’s website is the first one in the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospital (MCWAH) programs to be fully translated into Spanish! This is something we are very proud to offer to applicants.

Our recruitment season for residency applicants runs annually from September-February. Through partnerships with Froedtert Hospital, Children’s Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin, residents access the highest level of academic and clinical resources, while remaining based in a community setting. Working in conjunction with our Patient and Community Advisory Board, additional local community partnerships are a key to our success as a residency program and health center.

Residents participate in inpatient rotations at Froedtert Hospital, the region’s only academic medical center, and Children’s Wisconsin. Outpatient rotations including resident continuity clinic will occur at Forest Home Health Center, where residents build their own patient panels and learn what it really means to care for the community.

Thanks for taking the time to learn more about the Froedtert & MCW South Side Family Medicine Residency Program. I look forward to speaking with you soon!

Sabrina Hofmeister, DO, FAAFP
Program Director, F&MCW South Side Family Medicine Residency
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin