Family Medicine Residency Program

Physicians at Sugar Creek (PSC)

In Sept of 2007 the Residency Program consolidated its three outpatient clinics and moved into a newly built facility called Physicians at Sugar Creek (PSC).  This state of the art clinical facility is the new training site for all three years of your outpatient clinical experience.   The new PSC has a total of 40,000 thousand sq. ft.  The first floor is the patient care area consisting of five “pods”, a total of 58 exam rooms, 4 procedure rooms, laboratory draw and processing station, X-ray, and urgent care/occupational medicine departments.  The second floor houses the administrative offices, clinical faculty offices, three conference rooms, a large classroom, a resident work area, an exercise room, and two locker/shower facilities.  It also houses our telephone call center, nurse triage, billing center and the break/dining area.  The entire facility has wireless as well as standard wired computer connections combined with the use of one of the most powerful electronic medical record system.

From Day 1 in the residency, you will be assigned families for whom you will provide medical care during your three years here. You will see members of those families for well care, and for acute and chronic illnesses. You will deliver their babies, and counsel them during times of crisis.

Patients seen at the PSC represent the range of socioeconomic and ethnic groups typically seen by family physicians. In the first year of training, residents spend two half-days per week seeing patients at the PSC. Three half-days per week are spent at the centers during the second and third years.

The Hospitals

Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital
Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital is the flagship of the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, and the largest hospital in Texas devoted solely to the training of family practice physicians. For more information about this facility, go to the Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital  page.

Residents complete the majority of their inpatient education at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. In addition, the following hospitals are used:

Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital
Located in northeast Houston, the LBJ Hospital is a 325-bed county facility offering care to medically underserved Houstonians. Memorial Family Medicine residents receive some of their obstetric training here. For more information about the LBJ Hospital facility, see their web site.

Oakbend Medical Center
A 150-bed community hospital located in Richmond, Texas, Oakbend Medical Center is located in Fort Bend County, 20 miles south of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Here, residents are exposed to inpatient and outpatient community medicine and to obstetrics. Go to the Oakbend Medical Center web site to learn more about this facility.