The Combined Residency's Collaboration

with St. Vincent de Paul Village

St. Vincent de Paul Village is a world-renown comprehensive continuum of services to the homeless community of San Diego. Founded by the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, it is now a non-denominational, Federally recognized non-profit corporation. St. Vincent de Paul Village truly is a "village" in which individuals and families may live for up to two years, and the team of physicians in the UCSD Combined Family Medicine & Psychiatry Residency Program are the "family doctors" and psychiatrists for the Village. Many residency programs have contributed valuable service to homeless medical clinics in the past, but this program's collaboration with St. Vincent de Paul Village is believed to be the first time that a residency program has established its full "out-patient home base" for continuity of care in such a "Village Medical Clinic" in service to the homeless community.

St. Vincent de Paul Village's web site can be found at www.fatherjoesvillages.org.