Our Vision is To produce broadly-skilled family physicians who empower communities, advance health equity, and inspire the next generation of learners as we support one another.

The Stanford - O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program is part of a long tradition of excellence in the training of family physicians in the San Jose area since 1977, first at San Jose Medical Center and later at O’Connor Hospital. In 2017, we integrated with Stanford Health Care, combining a mission-driven County hospital setting with the educational resources of a world-renowned academic institution. Beginning in the 2026–27 academic year, our ACGME sponsorship will transition to Santa Clara Valley Healthcare (SCVH), while we will remain academically affiliated with the Stanford University School of Medicine. This shift strengthens our commitment to caring for diverse and underserved communities through a unified, County-operated clinical training environment. Our program expanded to 9-9-9 in 2024 and now trains 27 residents dedicated to full-spectrum, community-centered Family Medicine.

Our mission is to prepare outstanding Family Medicine physicians who can thrive in any practice setting.  

Our FMRP has 5 aims:

1. To provide a collaborative, supportive environment for training future leaders in Family Medicine;

2. To inspire and encourage a commitment to the underserved through the provision of care in our county hospital and Federally Qualified Health Center outpatient clinic;

3. To utilize innovative educational methods that engage and challenge our learners;

4. To maintain a strong & diverse faculty with expertise in a wide range of fields and who model full-spectrum family physicians; and

5. To model the practice of sustainable, lifelong family medicine that optimally uses the health care team to provide excellent patient-centered care while protecting physician well-being.

REcognition of racism

The Stanford-O'Connor Family Medicine Residency Program recognizes the destructive and pervasive effects that racism, including discriminatory policing and discrimination within the health care system, has had on Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color for hundreds of years.  Racism is a public health crisis that manifests itself in the poorer health and economic outcomes of people of color in our society -- including higher rates of chronic diseases and mortality from COVID-19, increased maternal and infant mortality rates, and wealth gaps and disparate incarceration rates.  The scourge of racism affects our patients, colleagues, loved ones, and ourselves.

We are only as good as our own individual beliefs and actions; we must understand and work together to create and sustain a culture of trust whereby we treat one another with empathy, kindness, and respect.  We are fully committed to confronting the institutional and systemic racism that continues to exist in our country, and to using our family medicine training and skills to address inequalities and work toward a more equitable and just society for all.  We are in full support of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ statement condemning all forms of racism found here.

LAND USE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

On-Call at O'Connor

One of the best parts of being on call at O’Connor Hospital is that you care for adult medicine patients across the hospital — admissions, rapid responses, and cross-coverage. It’s a supportive, high-impact, unopposed experience that builds confidence and independence.