UTRGV Family Medicine Residency at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance
Welcome! The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Family Medicine Residency Program at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance (DHR) is excited to have your interest in our program. We are dedicated to providing you with an exceptional Family Medicine residency education in a learner-centered environment. Our faculty believe that we all learn best in a psychologically safe environment that is warm, friendly, and supportive – one in which the learner can become progressively autonomous as a highly skilled family physician. In the few years of our history as a program, we have been able to train excellent Family physicians who are successful in a variety of careers and have become leaders in a variety of settings.
Our program was created in 2015 with the primary goal of focusing on comprehensive, family-centered care through the collaboration of team-based, integrated healthcare and education. Our clinical and educational mission is to provide culturally sensitive, cost-effective care to a high-need, underserved Hispanic population. We are located in South Texas where we serve an underserved patient population and are nested in a community that is rich in culture, and supports the educational needs and mission of our program.
We are intentional in continuously improving our resident education experience by developing a culture of resident autonomy in clinical, research and service missions of our University. Through a hands-on approach, a robust research and scholarly activity track, behavioral health and pharmacotherapy curriculum integration and community involvement, we make difference to those we serve and the ones we are fortunate to train.
Our program’s academic home is the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine (UTRGV SOM). Through UTRGV SOM’s Division of Graduate Medical Education, you will train with and alongside other well-respected physicians such as obstetrics & gynecology, surgery and other selective experiences. Our residents are therefore trained by top-notch faculty dedicated to the mission of teaching residents evidence-based, patient-centered care. This unified and integrated academic environment with premier access to vast array of expertise and rich resources has allowed us to collaborate on intensive, focused training experiences for our residents.
We offer individualized education plans to residents to match their areas of interest. These focus areas include the following and are not limited to academic medicine, obstetrics, hospital medicine, obesity medicine, integrative medicine and integrated behavioral health. In 2019, our program welcomed a Sports Medicine Fellowship, which has further cultivated our residents educational and community experience through didactics and longitudinal participation within High School and University sports teams.
Thank you for taking the time to consider our Family Medicine Residency Program. We hope you will give us the consideration of becoming your residency home. As a relatively young program, we have attracted trainees from a variety of geographic regions and have produced highly competent, full-spectrum, compassionate and self-motivated Family Physicians. My faculty and I are happy to serve you and please reach out if you have any clarifications, questions, or would like to know more.
Kristan Diaz-Rios, MD
Program Director