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Applicants

• Inpatient Training
• Ambulatory Care

• Third-year
• Second-year
• First-year

• College of Community Health Sciences
• The University of Alabama
• Tuscaloosa and the Metropolitan Area

• Community and Rural Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Obstetrics / Gynecology
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry and Neurology
• Surgery

The Residency

See also: General Information | Elective Emphases | Benefits

The teaching and supervision of family practice residents is, primarily, the responsibility of the College's large, full-time faculty.  These faculty members staff the Department of Family Medicine--the largest department--and the Departments of Behavioral and Community Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry/Neurology.  During the three-year Family Practice Residency, the faculty oversees resident training in both hospital and ambulatory care.  To ensure adequate clinical experiences, a team-oriented call schedule, which leaves residents free for two weekends each month, is arranged. 
 

Year One

• First year residents complete hospital rotations in:
• Emergency medicine;
• Family practice;
• Internal medicine;
• Obstetrics and gynecology;
• Pediatrics;
• Psychiatry;
• Surgery.
• First year residents also provide care for their patient panel at the Capstone Medical Center, an on-campus medical office.
• A series of seminars and lectures on family medicine is required.
• Rotations:

 
Year Two

• Time spent in ambulatory care is increased.
• Additional inpatient experience is offered.
• Second year residents begin required rotations through subspecialty areas, such as orthopaedics.
• Second year residents also begin their electives.
• Rotations:

Year Three

• The resident functions with increasing responsibility as a private practitioner in the group practice at Capstone Medical Center.
• Third-year seminars in practice management prepare residents for private practice.
• Additional elective rotations are completed during the year.
• Rotations:

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