• 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.