LEWISTON — Seven recent medical school graduates have joined the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency in Lewiston.

The mission of CMMC’s Family Medicine Residency is to provide a progressive and stimulating environment in which to learn and develop the skills necessary to be highly competent family physicians. All of these physicians are required to complete a three-year postgraduate residency in their chosen specialty of family medicine in order to become board-certified family physicians.

The Family Medicine Residency operates out of the Oscar Treat Turner Family Medicine Center at 76 High St., an outpatient health center adjacent to the medical center complex.

Family physicians offer care to entire families. Family medicine residents provide care to a group of patients and families at all stages of life, including pregnancy, childbirth, baby/child/teenager care, adults and elder adults, including end-of-life care. In addition, they spend time caring for patients in the hospital under the supervision of primary care doctors and sub-specialist physicians.