 I'm Kristen Rivas. I'm the Program Director for the Family and Community Medicine Program at University of Maryland. Our program is one of the first family medicine programs in the country founded in the late 1960s, and we've graduated over 500 family physicians who are currently serving in Maryland and beyond. Our residents receive training in a variety of inpatient-outpatient settings. We have inpatient rotations at University of Maryland Medical Center, a large academic hospital, and Baltimore Washington Medical Center, a smaller community hospital, giving our residents the best of both worlds feel. Additionally, our Sports Medicine Fellowship allows for our residents to receive optimal musculoskeletal training. Our teaching faculty is composed of highly enthusiastic and dedicated individuals who are excited about leading our doctors into the future of family medicine. Our department mission is to improve health through family practice, education, and innovative ideas. I hope that you will explore our residency further and consider becoming a part of our long-standing tradition of providing high-quality health care to families, individuals, and their communities. Hi, my name is Dr. Latte Bradford, and I am a resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. I actually went to medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and I knew in my third and fourth years through the family medicine clerkship and then later in my sub-I in the fourth year that this was the department where I wanted to train. One of the really special parts about this program that I really love is the fact that it is truly an embodiment of what it means to be a family physician. It is focusing on the health care needs, but also the socioeconomic and cultural needs of our patient population. Being able to train here in the city of Baltimore means we get to see patients with a diverse array of health care and social needs, and not only do our graduates finish with robust training in medicine, but we also become quite adept at navigating the social structures and navigating how to connect our patients with the resources and the services that they need once they leave the hospital and once they leave our clinic. One other emphasis that is of particular interest of mine is our social justice committee. So we are excited about raising the awareness and the consciousness of our faculty, our trainees, our department at large, to the issues that our patients deal with from day to day. And we are excited about becoming leaders on this campus in social justice to really make a difference beyond the walls of our clinic. One other thing that might be of interest to you is the fact that we care about resident wellness. This is not just about work and training, but we support one another outside of work. We are a family and it's a really awesome environment to be a part of, a supportive community to be a part of. Your faculty will be very encouraging and supportive of all of your professional and personal development goals. So this is just an awesome place to train, an awesome place to be a growing resident, and I strongly encourage you to consider the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Maryland.