Family Health Center of Worcester

Our Center

Be part of the solution! Train at a Federally Qualified Community Health Center that cares for a diverse urban underserved population. 

What We Offer

The Family Health Center of Worcester is a vital community resource for an ethnically diverse urban population. For more than 30 years, Worcester’s inner city residents have turned to the health center for the highest quality care regardless of their economic status, ethnicity, education or country of origin. The homeless, immigrants and refugees who would otherwise be unable to access medical, dental, social and ancillary services are all welcome at Queen Street. As a Queen Street resident, you will take advantage of access to specialists and cutting edge research that a university based program has to offer while being taught by family physicians on a family medicine service.
At Queen Street, you will be part of a primary care team that includes faculty physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and medical assistants, plus a social service advocate to help streamline delivery of care to all patients. A post-doctoral psychologist works with residents on interviewing individuals and families.  An onsite Department of Social Services, our own WIC program, dental, psychiatric counseling, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology services complete the comprehensive care model. It’s all done at Queen Street.

Access to the Experts

Queen Street residents are trained by a highly skilled and academic faculty group. 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. Any resident with research interests will have their choice of accomplished and experienced faculty members to help them identify and complete research in practically any area. Residents from Queen Street present their research at national Family Medicine conferences.

Family Centered Maternity Care

Our residents become comfortable with our complex obstetrical population by a caring for a large volume of their own prenatal patients under close faculty supervision. They deliver their own patients and faculty patients and 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. Residents gain both technical expertise in prenatal care and delivery as well as exposure to family centered, family medicine style maternity care.

We Do 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 Vietnamese, Albanian, Portuguese, Russian and Cambodian speaking patients.

Experience the Culture First Hand

Many of our residents take advantage of an international elective, funded by the residency program, where they spend a month abroad, experiencing the culture and learning the language of the immigrant patients for whom they care. Over the last ten 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 will sharpen your ability to treat the many patients who require collaboration with the mental health team.
 
 
We are very proud of our highly qualified residents and of our constantly evolving, progressive curriculum. The educational experience is individualized for the unique interests of the resident. We have been doing this for thirty years and we’ve really got it down!
It is your education…make the most of it.