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The Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University Family Medicine Residency is a three-year ACGME accredited program. We provide residents with the unique experience of training in both urban and rural settings, preparing them to practice in a wide range of locations and meet the needs of their communities.
Our graduates have a board pass-rate above the national average and have gone on to pursue a broad range of careers in family medicine, including primary care, hospitalist medicine, full-spectrum family medicine with obstetric care, academic medicine, urgent care, and subspecialty fellowships.
Our program, your future
Our program is a medium-sized, university-affiliated community program with six residents accepted per year, for a total of 18 residents. Corewell Health in West Michigan's large medical education system provides support for medical education initiatives systemwide in resident wellness, belonging and research
The structure of our program has residents rotating at two main Corewell Health locations— Grand Rapids and Greenville. The larger Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals include Butterworth Hospital (655 beds) and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (244 beds). Residents rotate here during their first year to get experience at a busy tertiary care center. Corewell Health Greenville Hospital (49 beds) is a certified rural health center where residents do the majority of their inpatient rotations, developing independence and autonomy in an unopposed setting as the only residents in the facility. There are continuity clinics in both Greenville and Grand Rapids, adjacent to each hospital site. The Grand Rapids continuity clinic serves a diverse patient population from the Grand Rapids area and includes a large immigrant population. The Greenville continuity clinic has a rural patient population from Greenville and surrounding counties. Each resident sees patients at one continuity clinic for the duration of their residency.
Our program is a medium-sized, university-affiliated community program with six residents accepted per year, for a total of 18 residents. Corewell Health in West Michigan's large medical education system provides support for medical education initiatives systemwide in resident wellness, belonging and research
The structure of our program has residents rotating at two main Corewell Health locations— Grand Rapids and Greenville. The larger Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals include Butterworth Hospital (655 beds) and Helen DeVos Children's Hospital (244 beds). Residents rotate here during their first year to get experience at a busy tertiary care center. Corewell Health Greenville Hospital (49 beds) is a certified rural health center where residents do the majority of their inpatient rotations, developing independence and autonomy in an unopposed setting as the only residents in the facility. There are continuity clinics in both Greenville and Grand Rapids, adjacent to each hospital site. The Grand Rapids continuity clinic serves a diverse patient population from the Grand Rapids area and includes a large immigrant population. The Greenville continuity clinic has a rural patient population from Greenville and surrounding counties. Each resident sees patients at one continuity clinic for the duration of their residency.
From the program director
Welcome to Corewell Health – Grand Rapids/MSU Family Medicine Residency. I am so happy you have decided to be a family physician and am confident you will find the best residency program to help you achieve your personal goals. I truly believe that most family medicine programs will offer you a fabulous learning experience. The question you really need answered is how you will find this “best fit” for yourself. I asked our residents, faculty and staff to share what makes our program unique to help you decide if we are right for you. If you’re ready to make West Michigan your home, here are the top five reasons our program should be at the top of your list:
Best of both worlds, rural and urban!
Are you unsure where you want to practice? Did you grow up in a small town and are thinking about going back? Do you enjoy urban medicine, but like a medium sized city with less traffic and lower cost of living? Are you looking for a residency that offers experience in smaller hospitals while still providing the benefits of learning in a large teaching hospital system with many fellowship specialties? If any of those questions above were a yes, we are a program to look at. Every resident in our program spends time in both Greenville, Michigan at Greenville Hospital and Grand Rapids, Michigan at both Butterworth Hospital and Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (part of Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals). This means every resident in our program rotates at a small rural hospital as well as a large academic health center. Residents are assigned to either the rural or urban continuity clinic allowing them to focus on a population that interests them the most, while gaining exposure to both settings. Truly the best of both worlds!
New and established program with experienced faculty
Our program graduated its first class in 2021, and we feel very lucky that we had the opportunity to develop a “new program” from the ground up. We were able to keep the best parts of a traditional family medicine residency while incorporating new ideas. For example, we were able to eliminate overnight call on our own service, provide generous elective time to pursue one’s passions, and participate in a pilot program for emerging technology like the use of AI in charting. Innovation and a continuous cycle of improvement are core values in our program.
Our faculty have more than 80 years of clinical teaching experience with residents and sit on national, state, and regional committees. Our completed fellowships include, program director leadership, vaccine science and behavioral health/family systems education, program faculty with certificates in Lifestyle Medicine and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. We have published research, obtained grant,s and have given presentations on local, statewide, and national levels. Members of our faculty flex their expertise in research, LGBTQ+ health, telehealth, in-office vasectomies, OB care, OMT, inpatient medicine, vaccine science, POCUS, substance use treatment, and end-of-life care. If you are looking for a program with highly experienced faculty, you’ve come to the right place.
No mold to break
This one is easy. Do what you want, develop your passions. You will be given plenty of electives and will have faculty with varied interests to help you develop a personal plan for residency. In our five graduating classes, we’ve had former graduates do inpatient medicine, OB, sports medicine, rural clinics, urban clinics, addiction medicine, and palliative care fellowships. Have a goal with some passion, and I promise we can get you where you want to go! After all, if you’ve met one family doctor, you’ve only met one family doctor. Family medicine allows for you to find a passion within yourself and nurture that aspect of providing care.
Support is endless
Residency will be hard. It is a time of tremendous personal growth where you will be responsible for patients’ lives. It is important to know that the program you are going to will anticipate and accommodate your needs. We have Graduate Medical Education (GME) groups for Wellness, IMG support, unity and belonging needs, and house staff concerns, and a wellness curriculum internal to our program dedicated to our residents. The Corewell Health Research Institute provides support with statistics, poster presentation or publication when your research project is due. Along with academic support from our affiliation with MSU CHM, and the MSU family medicine residency network. We also have a full-time program coordinator and faculty who are dedicated to seeing you succeed. Whatever support you might need in residency it’s likely already here, and if not, we will find a way to get you the support you need.
Small but big
We may be from a smaller-sized city, but we have big aspirations. As mentioned above we have faculty and residents with fellowships, research publications, national and state committee memberships, national presentations from faculty and residents, and numerous presentations at academic conferences. At the same time, we value our local communities and have worked to develop outreach programs within them. In our rural community, we have an annual sports physical night in Greenville, Michigan, where we complete over 200 free sports physicals by volunteering our time as a residency. This sports physical night was developed by one of our former residents and the local school district to help get more kids involved in sports. In our urban community, we work with Mel Trotter Ministries, a community nonprofit, to staff a Thursday night clinic for the unhoused within greater Grand Rapids. Our residents have led initiatives to implement fluoride varnish for our pediatric patients, universal maternal depression screening, establish a reach out and read program, and helped expose patients to our community kitchen programs with our culinary medicine program. We may be small, but have the power to create significant impact!
Hopefully this top five list has helped you to better understand the unique aspects of our program and how it could fit into your future academic training. I invite you to apply, visit or rotate to get to know us better.
Robin O’Meara, MD, Vaccine science fellow-AAFP
Family medicine residency program director
Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
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Family medicine residency bios
Program director
Robin O’Meara, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Robin O’Meara, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Robin O’Meara, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Robin O’Meara, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
Associate program directors
Lauren Snyder, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University
Nichole Lambert, LMSW
Behaviorist
Lauren Snyder, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University
Nichole Lambert, LMSW
Behaviorist
Lauren Snyder, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University
Nichole Lambert, LMSW
Behaviorist
Lauren Snyder, MD
Family medicine
- Residency: Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University
Nichole Lambert, LMSW
Behaviorist
Core faculty
Craig Matisoff, MD
Family Medicine
- Residency: Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Daniel Wallace, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/EW Sparrow Hospital
Brian Wilder, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/Munson Medical Center
Craig Matisoff, MD
Family Medicine
- Residency: Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Daniel Wallace, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/EW Sparrow Hospital
Brian Wilder, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/Munson Medical Center
Craig Matisoff, MD
Family Medicine
- Residency: Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Daniel Wallace, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/EW Sparrow Hospital
Brian Wilder, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/Munson Medical Center
Craig Matisoff, MD
Family Medicine
- Residency: Corewell Health - Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Daniel Wallace, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/EW Sparrow Hospital
Brian Wilder, DO
Family Medicine
- Residency: SCS/MSUCOM/Munson Medical Center
PGY 1
Valentine Igilimbabazi, MD
American University of Antigua
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Tina Mirzakhanian, DO
New York Institute of Technology
Henry Peabody, DO
Michigan State University
Pavel Pilar, MD
Masarykova Univerzita Lekarska Fakulta
Fatima Sulaiman, DO
Touro University—Nevada
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Alexandria Weymon, MD
Michigan State University
Valentine Igilimbabazi, MD
American University of Antigua
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Tina Mirzakhanian, DO
New York Institute of Technology
Henry Peabody, DO
Michigan State University
Pavel Pilar, MD
Masarykova Univerzita Lekarska Fakulta
Fatima Sulaiman, DO
Touro University—Nevada
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Alexandria Weymon, MD
Michigan State University
Valentine Igilimbabazi, MD
American University of Antigua
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Tina Mirzakhanian, DO
New York Institute of Technology
Henry Peabody, DO
Michigan State University
Pavel Pilar, MD
Masarykova Univerzita Lekarska Fakulta
Fatima Sulaiman, DO
Touro University—Nevada
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Alexandria Weymon, MD
Michigan State University
Valentine Igilimbabazi, MD
American University of Antigua
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Tina Mirzakhanian, DO
New York Institute of Technology
Henry Peabody, DO
Michigan State University
Pavel Pilar, MD
Masarykova Univerzita Lekarska Fakulta
Fatima Sulaiman, DO
Touro University—Nevada
Health Equity and Leadership Scholar, 2024-25
Alexandria Weymon, MD
Michigan State University
PGY 2
George Abuaita, MD
Ross University School of Medicine
Matthew Almany, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Carina Curtis, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Nolan Klunder, MD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD SOM
Portrait of Sarah Subhi, DO
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Monica Vandenbil, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
George Abuaita, MD
Ross University School of Medicine
Matthew Almany, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Carina Curtis, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Nolan Klunder, MD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD SOM
Portrait of Sarah Subhi, DO
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Monica Vandenbil, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
George Abuaita, MD
Ross University School of Medicine
Matthew Almany, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Carina Curtis, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Nolan Klunder, MD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD SOM
Portrait of Sarah Subhi, DO
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Monica Vandenbil, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
George Abuaita, MD
Ross University School of Medicine
Matthew Almany, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Carina Curtis, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Nolan Klunder, MD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD SOM
Portrait of Sarah Subhi, DO
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Monica Vandenbil, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
PGY 3
Alexandra Bagge, MD
St. George's University School of Medicine
Amin Charara, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
E. Raye Oscar, MD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences
Karyn Schmidt, MD
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Culinary medicine scholar
Morgan Sundblad-Hsieh, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
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Katlyn Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Alexandra Bagge, MD
St. George's University School of Medicine
Amin Charara, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
E. Raye Oscar, MD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences
Karyn Schmidt, MD
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Culinary medicine scholar
Morgan Sundblad-Hsieh, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Katlyn Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Alexandra Bagge, MD
St. George's University School of Medicine
Amin Charara, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
E. Raye Oscar, MD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences
Karyn Schmidt, MD
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Culinary medicine scholar
Morgan Sundblad-Hsieh, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Katlyn Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Alexandra Bagge, MD
St. George's University School of Medicine
Amin Charara, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
E. Raye Oscar, MD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Faculty of Health Sciences
Karyn Schmidt, MD
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Culinary medicine scholar
Morgan Sundblad-Hsieh, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Katlyn Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
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