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Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Residency
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Last updated: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Description
The Contra Costa program is a dynamic, full-spectrum, hands-on, community-integrated family medicine program with a long tradition of sending residents and faculty to remote, underserved global regions.
Locations of rotations
Bhutan
Indonesia
China
Tanzania, United Republic of
Costa Rica
India
United States
Nicaragua
Address
2500 Alhambra Ave
Martinez, CA 94553-3156
Country
US
Phone
(925) 370-5464
Fax
(925)370-5052
Program director
Leah N Romito MD
Field experience
Residents routinely have global health clinical experiences during their six-week away elective in their third year. We have also allowed some residents to convert one emergency medicine rotation to a disaster relief effort, most recently to New Orleans. We have a two-year Global Underserved Fellowship run by Scott Loeliger, MD, which includes an MPH at UC Berkeley in Public Health. Kinari Webb, MD, a 2005 graduate, is developing a long-term public health and clinical services infrastructure in remote Borneo (Indonesia) through her non-profit organization Health in Harmony. Residents are participating in planning and clinical experiences with her inspiring effort.
Didactics
A global health journal club meets at least quarterly to review literature and discuss evidence-based, sustainable global health efforts. Quarterly to monthly noon conference didactics focus on global health and interventions.
Cost to individual residents
Additional cost information
Resident receives pay while on electives. Mark Stinson Global Health Foundation helps support resident transportation, lodging and food.
Number of residents who have participated in the last two years
> 10
Does the program accept medical students for trips?
No
Does the program accept residents from outside the program for trips?
No
Approximate time of year of trips
Varies
Duration of trips
1 - 3 months