Family Medicine
Our Program
Academics
Baldwin Health serves as the home base for our program with over 90% of resident rotations taking place on or near the Baldwin Health campus in Foley. The Family Medicine Residency Practice clinic is one block north of the hospital and serves as the hub for outpatient training and didactics. We have two classrooms in the residency clinic, the primary one comfortably accommodates 40 people and the second one is smaller with more space set up for hands-on and simulation training. Both conference rooms have video teleconference capabilities and white boards or smart boards.
We provide lunch for daily didactic sessions in our larger classroom. Our didactic curriculum has a strong focus on evidence based medicine with our topics weighted to mimic the blueprint on the American Board of Family Medicine board certification exam. We are also an active member of the Family Physicians Inquiries Network, (FPIN) facilitating our scholarly process with over ten peer reviewed publications annually in journals such as American Family Physician, The Journal of Family Practice, and Evidence Based Practice. We are proud to be the only non-university affiliated community residency program in the country writing for the FPIN project, “Priority Updates from the Research Literature” (PURLs). In addition to the standard didactic curriculum, we also regularly participate in journal club, morbidity and mortality reviews, tumor board, grand rounds, program director meetings and chief meetings.
Curriculum
The Baldwin Health family medicine residency program is a community-based program. More than 200 physicians in Baldwin County have privileges at Baldwin Health and are supportive of our program and residents. Each year we have 13 four-week rotations.
PGY 1
- Orientation/Clinic – 4 weeks Adult Medicine – 12 weeks Community Medicine – 4 weeks Emergency Medicine – 8 weeks General Surgery – 4 weeks Ortho/Sports Medicine – 4 weeks Pediatric Outpatient – 4 weeks Obstetrics – 4 weeks Care of the Elderly Patient – 4 weeks Gynecology – 4 weeks
PGY 2
- Adult Medicine – 8 weeks
- Behavioral Health – 4 weeks
- Inpatient Pediatrics – 4 weeks
- Pediatric Outpatient – 4 weeks
- Urgent Care – 4 weeks
- Newborn Nursery / Management of Health Systems – 4 weeks
- Cardiology – 4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine – 4 weeks
- Quality Improvement – 4 weeks
- Obstetrics – 4 weeks
- Elective – 8 weeks
PGY 3
- Adult Medicine – 8 weeks
- Obstetrics – 4 weeks
- Dermatology – 4 weeks
- Rheumatology – 4 weeks
- Ortho/Sports Medicine – 4 weeks
- Family Medicine Clinic rotation – 4 weeks
- Board Prep – 4 weeks
- Pain Management – 2 weeks
- Electives – 18 weeks