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Family Medicine Residency Program

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The Yale Family Medicine Residency Program is committed to training compassionate, innovative, comprehensively trained, and community-focused family physicians who are equipped to lead in diverse healthcare environments.

Sponsored by Yale New Haven Health System and based in New London, Connecticut and Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, the residency program offers a unique blend of academic excellence and community engagement through comprehensive training at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and throughout the Yale systems and surrounding New London community.

We strive to cultivate a learning environment that emphasizes:

  • Evidence-based, relational, patient-centered care across the lifespan
  • Health equity and advocacy for underserved and vulnerable populations
  • Interprofessional collaboration and leadership
  • Lifelong learning and scholarly inquiry
  • A deep commitment to the communities we serve

We will recruit our first resident class in the 2027-2028 match cycle, with the first interns starting in the Summer of 2028.

Faculty

Leadership

  • Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP

    Founding Director

    Instructor; Founding Residency Program Director, Family Medicine

    Wendy B. Barr MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP is the Founding Residency Program Director for the Yale Family Medicine Residency Program at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. She is dedicated to growing and strengthening the primary care workforce to equitably improve the health of communities. This guides her work in supporting and expanding family medicine training programs and research to inform how to best train the next generation of comprehensive personal physicians who provide excellent care to all patients. Dr. Barr is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine MD/MPH program and completed her family medicine residency at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, MA. She then went on to complete a research and faculty development fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she also received a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE). Dr. Barr is a Distinguished Scholar for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) where she is conducting research on GME outcomes and GME program improvement and is the co-co-Principal Investigator for the Family Medicine Residency Outcome Project (FM-ROP) and the ABFM Annual National Resident Survey (NRS). Prior to coming to Yale, Dr. Barr was the Residency Program Director, ACGME Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), and Vice President of Clinical Education at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) in Lawrence, MA where she helped to lead the family medicine residency program’s transition from a three year to four year curriculum as part of the national ACGME Length of Training Pilot and multiple other residency redesign and innovation initiatives. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) from 2019-2023 including serving as President from 2021-2022 and she served on the Board of Directors for NAPCRG, an international primary care research professional association. She currently serves on multiple national family medicine education and research committees and taskforces. Her research interests include the care of pregnant people and children by family physicians, and developing evidence to support family medicine residency redesign and competency based medical education and board eligibility.
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