Just so you guys can read it for yourselves, here is the link to
In His Image Family Practice Residency .
Here is what they say in their program overview:
" His Image is for committed Christians seeking solid family practice training who are excited to explore what it means to be a family physician Christian with a global perspective. Our goal is to produce doctors who are prepared to practice excellent medicine in a wide variety of settings, with a particular emphasis on medically underserved locations.
We have an excellent, fully accredited program which meets all of the ACGME requirements. Our core faculty are excellent teachers, committed to training our residents. We train in both large tertiary-level hospitals and in a small rural hospital. We have a strong academic curriculum including all the basic rotations, which we continually strive to upgrade. Anything less would not honor His Image. In addition, we emphasize procedural training, including obstetrics, endoscopy, gynecologic procedures, and surgery. We also strive for excellence in computers in medicine and in international health.
Even so, what really sets us apart is the integration of our faith in Jesus Christ into every aspect of the program. It is our constant prayer to the Father that we become family physicians in His Image. We want each resident to learn what it means to be a spiritual person in medicine. The foundation for this is the fruit of the Spirit--love, joy, peace, long suffering, and so forth--plus honesty and integrity. In addition we want our graduates to know what to do when they can't come up with a diagnosis. We want them to be confident that there is a resource beyond their own intellect who can show them what to do when they don't know what to do. Further, when they know the diagnosis, but there' s nothing, medically speaking, they can do about it, we want them to believe that God can move supernaturally and affect the lives of people.
To do this requires that we become whole persons ourselves; academically excellent, emotionally integrated in Him, physically fit, well-knit into our families, spiritually growing, contributing to our community and, finally, examples to a world which sorely needs positive role models. Therefore, we have developed a sense of community and sharing through group Bible study, prayer and fellowship times.
This would be fine, yet empty, if we did not feel the Father's heart for the world and use our training to bless others. Image stands for International Medicine and Graduate Education. Our residents are encouraged to experience the breadth of opportunities available around the U.S. and the world and, as one can see by our alumni, they have accepted the challenge.
Our graduates have become Christian leaders wherever they have gone. They are comfortable moving in spiritual areas. When the patient's problem isn't physical--when it's a hurt from long ago and they won't see a therapist; when they need to be forgiven, or to forgive, but they won't go to a pastor, won't go to church--we want our graduates to be ready to deal with those things. As we see it, God has called us to produce leaders, not by the world's definition--lording it over people, or bossing them around--but servant leaders who are able to affect a family, a church, a school, a community, a nation, even the world, for Jesus Christ.
In summary, our goal is to produce physicians who are able to exercise Jesus-type leadership skills, whether in a clinical setting or while serving in a church or working internationally. More than anything else, we want every graduate to be a person of whom God could say, "This is what a Christian doctor is, and I can move through him or her to touch the hearts of people."
