The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Huntsville Regional Medical Campus
Family Medicine Residency Program
Over 25 percent of the family physicians who have trained in Alabama are graduates of the Huntsville residency program, the state’s first family practice residency. Since admitting its first resident in November 1973, the program has prepared selected young physicians for careers of medical services to their communities. This family practice residency is the only residency program of any kind in the entire North Alabama area.
The Family Practice Program in Huntsville is unique in that it is a strong community program based in a university medical school. This situation provides opportunities for the Family Practice Program to enjoy full service patient care and teaching, as well as research and scholarly activity. Family Practice residents are responsible for teaching third and fourth year UAB medical students assigned to various clinical clerkships.
A strong clinically oriented curriculum is the cornerstone of the Residency. In addition to providing each resident responsibility for ongoing care for assigned patients in the Family Practice Center, the program emphasizes the traditional specialties – medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and surgery. There are concentrated experiences in the clinical subspecialties as well as ongoing training in behavioral medicine, geriatrics, and practice management.
The first Family Practice – Sports Medicine Fellowship in the state of Alabama was started in 1995 at our program. As part of the residency curriculum the Family Practice residents and the Sports Medicine resident participate in the care of many athletes in our area and develop the knowledge and skills to deliver high quality care to athletes young and old.
Training residents to perform procedures is a special emphasis of the program. Vasectomies, cervical colposcopy, gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, obstetrical ultrasound, and other procedures are taught in the family practice modules by the family practice faculty.
In the UASOM – Huntsville Family Practice Residency Program, we are committed to molding competent family physicians who will deliver high quality health care to their patients in any setting.
