Curriculum
The integrative medicine fellowship curriculum blends real-world training with the flexibility to explore your areas of passion. By stepping into educational, teaching, and clinical roles, you’ll build the versatility to deliver whole-person care to diverse and underserved populations.
Curriculum Topics
- Lifestyle Medicine - including nutrition, exercise/movement, sleep, and social connections
- Culinary Medicine
- Mind-body medicine, including stress reduction and HeartMath biofeedback
- Behavior change coaching
- Evidence-based herbal medicine and supplements
- Modular monthly topics, including: gastrointestinal, cardiometabolic, fatigue, chronic pain, neuro-psych, and hormone health.
- Overview of traditional healing modalities often used by patients
- Introduction to osteopathic manipulative treatment (or advanced practice opportunities for DOs)
How You’ll Learn
- 1:1 education with the fellowship director
- Attend CME conferences
- Engage with faculty and community practitioners
- Participate in guided learning to complete IM curriculum as ABOIM preparation
- Choose 1–2 areas of expertise to explore in depth
- Complete one clinical or research capstone project
- Serve as an attending in the Integrative Medicine Clinic
- Deliver integrative medicine didactics to the residency
Blending Training and Teaching
As a teaching and learning fellowship, you’ll be part of the faculty for the Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. A fellowship position at 1.0 full-time employee (FTE) includes a blend of clinic and educational time.
0.6 FTE Clinic time
Clinic time includes a combination of:
- Continuity clinics
- Integrative medicine (IM) clinics
- Outpatient precepting shifts
0.4 Education time is dedicated to:
- IM curricular learning, CME time, and 1:1 sessions with the Fellowship Director
- Exploration of integrative medicine in affiliated FQHCs (0.1 FTE)
- Project planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Administrative tasks
- Research time
Pursue Your Area of Expertise
In just one year, you’ll graduate with the confidence to practice integrative family medicine in many settings. Along the way, you’ll tailor your experience by focusing on one or two areas of interest. With CME funding, hands-on clinic time and attending responsibilities, we’ll help you shape the career you want.
To deepen your expertise, you’ll gain experience through:
- Participating in faculty inpatient medicine calls
- Precepting in traditional family medicine resident clinics
- Receiving dedicated clinic time in modalities like biofeedback, acupuncture, OMT or hypnosis
- Serving as an attending in the Integrative Medicine Clinic alongside resident primary care doctors to co-manage care
Living in Santa Rosa
Live where wine country charm meets coastal adventure. Just 55 miles from San Francisco, Santa Rosa offers it all. Find your home near the hospital or in nearby towns like Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, Cotati or Petaluma.