Family Medicine Residency Connections
ASK A RESIDENT: MEGAN MELO
"I am a strong believer that everyone has a right to receive compassionate and thoughtful healthcare. As a provider it is my privilege to partner with my patients and the people they consider family to make positive changes in their lives, as well as to prevent and treat disease."
Questions about GHC? Check out the FAQ. If you don't find your answer there, you can contact Megan at GHCFPR@ghc.org.
Group Health Cooperative
Group Health Cooperative
Key information:
- Mission: to provide exceptional training for family physicians in compassionate, comprehensive, and innovative health care.
- Goal: to train family physicians to practice in a variety of settings and foster the development of collegial and organizational skills to enhance patient care, while leading the cutting edge of technology and evidence based care.
- Values: respect, scientific discipline, integrity, pioneering spirit, and stewardship.
- Patients: blue and white collar workers, students, retirees, recent and generational immigrants, unemployed, and those on state and federal health plans.
- Highlights: Teen Pregnancy and Parenting Clinic, HIV clinic, high OB numbers, abortion training, balint/support group, with mostly 1:1 teaching with attendings, clinical informatics, emphasis on preventive care and chronic disease management. Community-based collegial program in an urban neighborhood with a rich cultural history and tremendous diversity, close integrated relationships with specialist teachers and consultants.
- More key information on the AAFP website
5 Residency Positions Offered
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Group Health Cooperative
A Values-Based Organization
"I got into medicine because I’m a rampant idealist. For similar reasons, I was attracted to Group Health because, truth be told, idealists have been attracted to Group Health since its inception half a century ago. The physicians and member-patients in this organization try to make the world a better place..."
