Family Medicine Rural Residency Track
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Our unique and exciting rural opportunity provides our the selected residents training
within an ACGME accredited program. Residents selected for this track will work one
on one with a family physician practicing full-spectrum care including: general and
preventative medicine, operative procedures, surgical obstetrics. These residents
will attend the first year of residency with their assigned core program and subsequent
two years in rural practices outside of Odessa/Midland. The region is rich in cultural
diversity from rapid population growth due to economic stability.
The design of our rural track recognizes the primacy of the continuity principle in
Family Medicine and reinforces this through longitudinal experiences one-on-one with
family doctors who daily provide the continual spectrum of prenatal through post-partum,
newborn through adolescent, adult through geriatric, and pre-operative through post-operative
care for their panel of patients in various settings. This track provides equal curricular
experiences for all residents by completing the same rotations, acquiring the majority
of inpatient experiences at the core program site and attending common activities.