About
About Northern Light EMMC’s Family Medicine Residency
Our Mission:
To provide and teach comprehensive, accessible, and compassionate healthcare while contributing to the leadership, greater knowledge, and impact of our profession.
Our Guiding Principles:
- Lifelong learning in a supportive and respectful environment that accentuates inter-professional collaboration and patient safety.
- Relationships are the foundation of Family Medicine, underscoring the importance of continuity in the physician-patient relationship.
- Service to individuals, families, and our community, with an emphasis on underserved populations, as we strive to address healthcare disparities.
- Practice of evidence-based medicine, focusing on prevention where possible, and chronic disease management where appropriate.
- Contribution to quality improvement, research, and publication through fostering an atmosphere of curiosity and inquisitiveness.
Our Vision Statement:
To earn recognition as a center for excellence in the training of quality family physicians with knowledge, skills, and compassion necessary for a full spectrum of practice and leadership in a variety of settings. To facilitate the goal of providing primary care to all underserved areas in the state of Maine.