• Train residents to provide quality clinical care in a wide range of clinical venues.

• Expose trainees to the subspecialties medicine in order to obtain a broader understanding of the scope of patient care.

• Introduce trainees to ambulatory continuity of care medicine.

• Create in trainees a proficiency level of excellence in medicine.

• Develop an organized approach toward the diagnosis of disease.

• Apply the principles of evidence-based medicine to the care of patients.

• Integrate osteopathic concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

• Develop an awareness of health care economics and practice cost containment.

• Recognize the basis of and the need for humanistic values in clinical medicine.

• Stimulate participation in the educational process of residents and students.

• Develop a methodical; approach to reading, interpreting and applying the medical literature.

• Promote health well-being and preventative medicine.

• Provide healthcare to the underserved population in South Texas.