General Information
Program Highlights
- One of the most successful and productive residencies in the Southeast
- The only residency at the 658 bed community hospital which is the referral hospital for West Alabama
- Large full-time faculty assisted by numerous local physician volunteers
- University-based program with medical student education
- Emphasis areas including rural medicine, obstetrics and sports medicine
- Located on the main campus of The University of Alabama, home of the Crimson Tide
- Community offering a wide-range of cultural, recreational and social activities, neighboring both, urban and rural parts of Alabama
- Family medicine obstetrics fellowship
Program Overview
The Family Medicine Residency in Tuscaloosa prepares physicians to provide excellent care in family medicine. The curriculum is designed to lead to board certification in family medicine and competence in patient care, and to prepare physicians to assume responsible positions in their communities.
Offering a broad-based curriculum, the program nevertheless has a clear focus: to develop family practitioners committed to providing comprehensive, competent, and compassionate care for the medical problems of patients of all ages. Through a combination of clinical assignments and academic instruction, the program teaches the need for medical care to address the person who has the illness and not just the person’s illness.
The program is conducted by the Department of Family Medicine of the University of Alabama School of Medicine’s College of Community Health Sciences (link to CCHS home page). Although administered by the University, the program emphasizes community-based continuity of care.
Program Objectives
Our Family Medicine Residency provides postgraduate medical education necessary for board certification in, and the professional practice of, family medicine. Specifically, the program will:
- lead to competence in the biological and psychosocial care of patients of all ages;
- teach a treatment approach that is comprehensive, continuous, and caring;
- teach family dynamics and community interactions in the treatment of patients;
- develop health-assessment and preventive-medicine skills; encourage each resident’s role as educator in the medical community;
- enhance residents’ skills in the practice of medicine;
- provide several models for the practice of family medicine
- and promote the development of management skills;
- recognize the professional and personal needs of residents