Community Medicine Training

Communities & Physicians Together (CPT) is a three-year training program for resident physicians in pediatrics, family practice and internal medicine at the University of California, Davis. CPT's mission is to "give all individuals a healthy present and future by teaching physicians, both in training and in practice, how to make a difference thorough active community partnerships."

The training program relies heavily on strong, reciprocal partnerships formed with accomplished community partners who serve as "community faculty," and is designed to be completed during one "block" or "rotation" in each year of residency. CPT's theoretical framework is based on the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach to grassroots organizing, placing special emphasis on the positive gifts in a community rather than using traditional needs-based models.