Family Medicine Education for Mendocino County (FMEMC) was developed as a community-based interest group that will be an independent advisory board to the family medicine residency training program starting at UVMC in July 2018. FMEMC represents the interests of the local community, seeking to maintain vested financial interest in the residency program and overseeing the unique health care needs that are applicable to our own community.

​The Board of Family Medicine Education for Mendocino County was seated in April of 2015. The community members who are listed below, secured tax-exempt 501c3 status in December, 2015. Events planning, education and fundraising are the primary activities of the volunteer board members. Another major function of this board is to serve as a conduit with rural Mendocino and Lake County residents so that their opinions and ideas are able to be embedded in the curriculum of The Family Medicine Residency program at Ukiah Valley Medical Center.  

• Daphne Macneil, President
• Mary Anne Landis, Vice President
• Colleen Gorman, Secretary
• Donna Ruoff, Treasurer
• Darca Nicholson
• Linda Burris
•  Jonathan Middlebrook.

​Organizations which are partnering to make a family medicine residency program in Ukiah, a reality

​Ukiah Valley Medical Center

The leadership and staff of the Ukiah Valley Medical Center are enthusiastically supportive of the Family Medicine Residency Program. UVMC will provide the clinics and the qualified physicians who will teach the family medicine residents.

UC Davis

The University of California, Davis has agreed to be the academic sponsor of the Ukiah-based Family Medicine Residency Program. UC Davis, a full affiliate, dedicated to academic excellence, medical policy shaping and primary care advocacy, will provide academic support for the faculty of the residency program. 

​Adventist Health

Adventist Health has offered to match $100,000 of community funds raised to support the Family Medicine Residency Program in Ukiah.