Family Health Center of Worcester

"It was 1972...I knew I wanted to take care of women. Within two months into my rotating internship, I knew I wanted to take care of infants and children, too. I signed on as one of the first residents in this program and I was not disappointed!" 
                                         - Professor Lucy Candib, MD, 2009
                                    
  
                                           
                                   Resident Lucy Candib, 1972                Professor Candib today 

Access to the Experts

As a Queen Street resident, you will have access to all of the specialists and cutting edge research that a university-based program has to offer. We have family physicians with fellowship training in Maternal-Child Health and Obstetrics, Sports Medicine and Addiction Medicine.  Interested in Pediatrics? We have health centers based in several of Worcester’s public schools and our own Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder clinic, run by a family physician. If you have research interests, you will have your choice of accomplished and experienced faculty members to help you identify and complete your research. Residents from Queen Street present their research at national Family Medicine conferences.

Family Centered Maternity Care

You will become comfortable with our complex obstetrical population by caring for a large volume of your prenatal patients under close faculty supervision. You'll deliver your own patients and faculty patients and will experience the unique Queen Street approach.

Maternity patients are assigned a social services advocate who supports, educates and advocates for them. Our non-English speaking patients have that advocate attend them in labor to provide emotional support and translation. You will gain both technical expertise in prenatal care and delivery as well as exposure to family-centered, family medicine-style maternity care.

We Teach Procedures

Queen Street residents are trained by their family medicine faculty in colposcopy and all types of skin procedures at weekly clinics. You will learn IUD insertion and endometrial sampling by providing this service to your own patients under the supervision of your preceptor. You may work in our onsite Urgent Care Department periodically or as an elective rotation. In Urgent Care, you will have the opportunity to care for many acutely ill and injured patients who may require suturing of lacerations, casting of fractures, and management of active medical problems.

Language Is No Barrier

If you find multi-cultural settings stimulating, then Queen Street is for you! Close to 50% of our patients speak Spanish and interpreters are on hand at all times. Full-time translators also assist patients who speak Vietnamese, Albanian, Portuguese, Russian and Cambodian. 

Experience the Culture First Hand

You may take advantage of an international elective, funded by the residency program, where you spend a month abroad, experiencing the culture and learning the language of the immigrant patients for whom you care. Over the last 10 years, our residents have experienced electives in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Albania, Vietnam, Egypt and more.

Teaching the Evidence

Daily chart rounds are facilitated by family medicine faculty committed to teaching EBM. Computers in our library provide immediate access to internet resources such as UpToDate. We teach the latest clinical guidelines and provide residents with academic pharmacy faculty who assist in precepting. Weekly participation of the consulting psychiatrist in chart rounds sharpens your ability to treat the many patients who require collaboration with the behavioral health team.

We are proud of our highly qualified residents and of our continually evolving, progressive curriculum. The educational experience is individualized for your own unique interests.  Come train with us at Queen Street!