Family Medicine
Welcome to the Baldwin Health Family Medicine Residency! Whether you are beginning to explore Family Medicine or searching for the program where you will spend the next three years becoming the physician you aspire to be, I am delighted that you are considering Baldwin Health.
We believe exceptional residency training should prepare you for virtually any career in Family Medicine without requiring you to sacrifice your well-being along the way. Our unopposed, community-based program combines broad clinical experience, meaningful patient relationships, evidence-based scholarship, and dedicated faculty who are personally invested in your success.
Since welcoming our first class in 2018, we have built a program that is academically strong, clinically comprehensive, and intentionally focused on each resident’s growth. Our graduates have maintained a 100% first-time American Board of Family Medicine certification examination pass rate and consistently report outstanding satisfaction with their educational experience.
What makes Baldwin Health special, however, goes beyond our accomplishments. It is the culture we have created together —one in which residents are known, supported, challenged, and encouraged to become the best versions of themselves, both personally and professionally.
Exceptional, Individualized Training
As the only residency program at Baldwin Health, our residents benefit from an unopposed learning environment with extensive opportunities for hands-on patient care, procedures, and progressive clinical responsibility. Our comprehensive curriculum prepares graduates for careers ranging from outpatient Family Medicine and hospital medicine to rural and underserved care, urgent and emergency medicine, fellowship training, and academics.
We also recognize that every resident arrives with different interests and goals. Through individualized mentorship and substantial elective opportunities, we help residents tailor their education toward the career they envision.
Academic excellence is equally important. Our nationally recognized partnership with the Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) teaches residents to critically evaluate medical literature and translate evidence into better patient care. Every Baldwin Health graduate has participated in peer-reviewed publication, with resident and faculty scholarship appearing in American Family Physician, Evidence-Based Practice, and The Journal of Family Practice.
Excellence Without Sacrificing Wellness
Residency is demanding, but we believe rigorous clinical education and personal well-being should complement one another rather than compete.
Our residents average fewer than 55 working hours per week, allowing meaningful time for family, friends, personal interests, and life outside the hospital. Shared lunchtime didactics, approachable faculty, dedicated behavioral health support, and a culture in which residents have a genuine voice help create an environment that is both challenging and supportive.
Our commitment to resident experience is reflected in our outcomes. Baldwin Health maintains full ACGME accreditation without citations, and in our most recent anonymous ACGME Resident Survey, the program achieved compliance in all 52 evaluated areas, with 51 receiving favorable responses of 90% or higher.
We are proud of those results, but we also believe the best residency programs never stop improving. Resident feedback remains central to how we continue to strengthen our program.
Experienced Faculty, Genuine Relationships
Our faculty bring diverse experience from academic medicine, military medicine, community practice, and medical education. They have earned numerous teaching awards, contributed extensively to medical literature, and educated generations of family physicians.
What unites them is a genuine commitment to teaching and mentorship. We want to know your goals, recognize your strengths, help you navigate challenges, and celebrate your accomplishments.
An Exceptional Place to Train —and Live
Baldwin Health serves one of Alabama’s fastest-growing communities and continues to expand its facilities and clinical services. As the hospital’s only residency program, our residents play an important role in caring for our community while helping shape the future of healthcare along the Gulf Coast.
Outside the hospital, our location offers beautiful beaches, outdoor recreation, excellent dining, welcoming communities, and easy access to Pensacola and Mobile. It is a wonderful place to train, build relationships, and enjoy life outside of medicine.
We welcome medical students to experience our program firsthand through elective and audition rotations in our Family Medicine Residency Clinic and inpatient adult medicine service.
As you consider where to complete your residency, I encourage you to look beyond statistics and schedules. Consider the people who will mentor you, the colleagues who will become lifelong friends, the patients who will shape your development, and the kind of physician —and person —you hope to become.
At Baldwin Health, we are committed to helping you train exceptionally, live fully, and become the family physician you aspire to be.
I look forward to welcoming you to our residency family!
Leah Soley, M.D.
Program Director
Baldwin Health Family Medicine Residency