Travis Family Medicine Residency

David Grant Medical Center

Travis Air Force Base, CA

2021 Medical Student Site Director of the Year! 

2020 Medical Student Teaching Site of the Year!


Our Mission

Cultivate Family Medicine Leaders providing trusted, evidence-based care for service members and families. 

Our Vision: 

World-class Family Medicine training! 

Program Goals: 

Transform physicians into inspired learners and well-rounded leaders in Family Medicine 

Train physicians who excel in providing evidence-based, comprehensive care 

Prepare physicians to serve diverse populations across all settings 

Foster a culture of safety, wellness and inclusion 

 

Broad experience, essential role...

As Air Force Family Physicians we provide crucial, even life-saving support to military families made up of single or married airman, their dependent spouses and children as well as to our retired service members. Cradle to grave, Airman Basic to the Commander in Chief, at home or deployed - Family Medicine is there.


Schedule your rotation today by e-mailing:  Dr. Christina Valerio (christina.r.valerio.mil@health.mil) or Dr. Glynnis Knobloch (glynnis.k.knobloch.civ@health.mil)

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Why Travis?

The Department of Family Medicine operates on the premise that comprehensive quality medical care can be provided efficiently and effectively to a family by a well-trained family physician. This training is grounded in the six Core Competencies as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). These competencies are: Communication and Interpersonal Relations, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Professionalism and Systems-based practice.


David Grant Medical Center (DGMC) is a full service, 125‑bed, acute‑care facility which serves as a referral center for the western region of the United States.  Residents at DGMC work in the Family Medicine Clinic, specialty clinics, as well as other designated training sites to include UC Davis, Contra Costa Medical Center and Santa Clara County Medical Center. Consultation services are available with board‑certified individuals in all departments. In the first year of training, the program emphasizes inpatient management of medical problems. In the second year, inpatient skills are refined with greater emphasis on leadership of medical students and junior residents combined with greater exposure to outpatient clinics. During the third year, the emphasis is continuity care in the outpatient setting. 

Most residents become certified in a variety of procedures including:


Additional procedures are available for those interested including:

We're also excited to host a variety of medical students and are proud to be the 2020 USUHS clerkship site of the year!

Resident Rotations

The following is a listing of the clinical rotations done by Family Medicine residents at Travis Air Force Base Family Medicine Residency. There are 13 4-week blocks per year.

Most of the rotations occur at David Grant Medical Center. A few rotations denoted below take place at other hospitals. The outside rotations add valuable clinical and cultural experience not typically seen in our military population. Of the outside institutions, one is a large academic center in a metropolitan environment (UC Davis in Sacramento) where we complete some of our emergency medicine and pediatric rotations, with access to a Level 1 trauma center and a renowned children's hospital. Newborn nursery is completed at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, which is in the East Bay area in Martinez, CA and is a well-respected family-medicine run county hospital. Lastly, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA runs one of the largest labor and delivery units in the state, which provides us with obstetric experience far beyond what can be seen in a military training facility. Overall, these opportunities greatly strengthen the overall training and improve the perspective of our residents as it incorporates different populations, hospital systems, EMRs, and most importantly, medical experiences. 

Listed below are the current rotations for the 2023- 2024 academic year.

PGY 1


PGY 2 


PGY 3

The Best Residency Location in the Air Force! 

DGMC is within an hour’s drive of San Francisco, Sacramento, Napa and Sonoma Valleys and within 3 hours of Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, Monterey, Big Sur, Mendocino, and countless other destinations!

While work hours are long in residency, precious time away can hardly be spent in a better location. Whether you feel at home in the big city or desolate wilderness, beaches or mountains, desert or damp coastal forests, the Travis AFB Family Medicine Residency Program is for you!

Not only do our residents get to enjoy the area in their free time, but the program actually sponsors enjoying it during the duty day! R1’s spend a day early on their first year having breakfast in Sausalito, taking a ferry to Angel Island, then hiking to the top for breathtaking views of the greater Bay Area while getting to know each other and the faculty even better. Additional retreats happen at the end of the first year, the beginning of the third year, and culminate with a 3-day weekend retreat at the end of the 3rd year. Past retreat destinations have included Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, wine tasting in Sonoma on Segway’s, canoeing the Russian River, sailing in the San Francisco Bay, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, and whitewater rafting down the famous American River!

Outside of the phenomenal place we live, the people of the residency make it a great time! Each year, there is a Holiday Party, Over-The-Hump party (after the half-way point of the academic year, complete with themes demonstrating ridiculous costumes and a silent auction), and Roast (End of the year banquet with awards and videos “roasting” the staff and the graduating R3’s). 

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