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 for military leadership and serve populations across all settings 

Foster a culture of safety and wellness

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. Glynnis Knobloch (glynnis.k.knobloch.civ@health.mil) or Dr. Ryan Williamson (ryan.l.williamson5.mil@health.mil) 

2026 usafp overall Outsanding achievement in scholarly activity!

2025 USAFP Air Force Outsanding achievement in scholarly activity!

2024 USAFP AIR FORCE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY! 

2021 Medical Student Site Director of the Year! 

2020 Medical Student Teaching Site of the Year!

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:

• Multiple skin procedures including shave, punch, and excisional biopsies, EIC removal, lipoma removal, and toenail removal

• Vaginal Delivery and associated vaginal laceration repairs, FSE placement, and IUPC placement

• Vasectomy

• Neonatal circumcision

• IUD insertion and removal

• Nexplanon insertion and removal

• Endometrial biopsy

• Casting and splinting

• Joint aspiration and injection

• Exercise treadmill administration and interpretation

• 1st trimester ultrasounds

Additional procedures are available for those interested including:

• Colonoscopy (1-2 residents/year)

• Medical Acupuncture Training

• Lumbar puncture

• Thoracentesis

• Paracentesis

• Central line insertion

• Arterial line insertion

• Intubation

• Chest tubes

• Point of Care Ultrasound (FAST, RUSH, DVT, aorta, RUQ ultrasounds, etc)

• Additional Women's Health Procedures including colposcopy, LEEP 

• Vacuum and forcep assisted vaginal deliveries

• Primary C-section (a possibility for those intending to complete an OB fellowship)

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

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

PGY 1

• Adult Ward Medicine DGMC (inpatient): 4 weeks

• Behavioral Medicine: 4 weeks

• Emergency Medicine (DGMC): 4 weeks

• Gynecology: 4 weeks

• ICU/Cardiology: 4 weeks

• Night Float: 8 weeks

• Obstetrics (at Santa Clara County Medical Center): 4 weeks

• Pediatrics Clinic/Nursery: 4 weeks

• Pediatrics Ward (UC Davis): 4 weeks

•  Sports Medicine and Procedures : 4 weeks 

• Surgical Subspecialty: 4 weeks

• ENT: 2 weeks

• Urology: 2 weeks

PGY 2 

• Adult Ward Medicine: 4 weeks

• Dermatology:  4 weeks

• Elective: 8 weeks

• Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics (UC Davis): 4 weeks

• Sports Medicine and Procedures: 4 weeks

• Geriatrics: 4 weeks

• ICU/Cardiology:  4 weeks

• Night Float:  8 weeks

• Obstetrics (Santa Clara County Medical Center): 4 weeks

• Pediatrics Clinic/Nursery (DGMC): 4 weeks

• Pediatrics Nursery Contra Costa County Medical Center Martinez: 4 weeks

PGY 3

• AMRO (Airmen Medical Readiness Optimization): 4 weeks

• Adult Ward Medicine: 4 weeks

• Electives: 3 blocks of 4 weeks each

• Emergency Medicine (UC Davis): 4 weeks

• Family Medicine Continuity Clinic: 4 weeks

• Hospital Manager (DGMC Labor & Delivery, Acute Fracture Care): 4 weeks

• Internal Med Subspecialty Elective: 4 weeks

• Night Float: 8 weeks

• Sports Medicine and Procedures: 4 weeks

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).