The Obstetrics Fellowship, which is part of The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, is the oldest such training program in the United States. Dr. Paul Mozley, former professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the College of Community Health Sciences, which operates the residency, created the fellowship in 1986 to address the overwhelming need for obstetrics care in rural and remote areas of Alabama. Since then, many obstetrics fellowship programs across the United States have been modeled after Mozley’s original design.
The goal of the Obstetrics Fellowship is to educate and train family medicine physicians to provide obstetrical care to women in rural and underserved areas with the goal of improving overall maternal and perinatal health outcomes.