1.Provide the Family Practice resident with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to competently manage medical patients with simple and complex problems.

2.Provide a foundation which can be expanded and refined during medical sub- specialty rotation

3.Provide the resident with knowledge about how family dynamics and behavioral medicine principles apply to the hospitalized medical patient.

4.Teach the residents to utilize the concept of the healthcare team thereby the physician is the coordinator of the health team’s efforts, calling upon support and input from personnel in nursing, social work specialty clinics, nutrition, administration, and chaplain staff.

5.Teach the resident to recognize the limit of one’s own knowledge and skills andinstitute timely and appropriate consultation.

6.Teach the resident to exhibit patterns of inter-professional collaboration and cooperation which enhance patient care.

7.Teach the resident to recognize that hospital care is merely one phase on a continuum of longitudinal and continuous medical care.

8.Train family physicians to provide comprehensive, continuing care to all of their patients.

9.Stimulate the analytical attitude toward the most efficient and effective use of the physician’s time, personnel, and facilities in order to provide optimal care to patients.

10.Implement preventive services and consistently educate patients about health.

11.Train Family Medicine residents in the core competencies, as identified by the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP)