Dr. Brian Bacak is the program director for the Rose Family Medicine Residency in Denver.
What is the recipe for producing a high-quality family physician?
Take four years of medical school, three years of residency training in a clinical setting, hard work and a heaping dash of support from teachers who care.
On June 5, 1970, the family medicine training program at Rose Medical Center received official accreditation as a recognized training program for specialty education. Considered a “new” discipline at the time, the specialty of family medicine emphasized whole-person care of patients and their families, a scholarly approach to primary care and the belief that caring for people from the earliest days of their lives throughout their entire span of adulthood led to healthier patients and populations. Since then, Rose Medical Center has been the home for family medicine education and primary care training. It is now one of the oldest continuously accredited general-practice residency programs in the country.
The Colorado Health Foundation (in concert with the HealthONE hospital system) became the financial sponsor of Rose’s residency program in 2002. As one of the Foundation’s three primary care training programs, Rose Family Medicine graduates six new family physicians every year. This year, graduates will continue their careers in rural Colorado, urban community health centers, urgent care and hospital in-patient units. One graduate will begin a sports-medicine fellowship while another will begin a fellowship in advanced obstetrics. Graduates will deliver babies, set broken bones, give childhood immunizations, take care of heart-attack victims and resuscitate trauma victims – all under the umbrella of family medicine.
Join us in congratulating Rose Family Medicine on their 40th year as a fixture in Colorado primary care education.
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