What is a Rural Track Program?
Our Family Medicine rural track program is designed to give residents an in-depth experience practicing medicine in a rural setting, and our mission is to train physicians with an interest in meeting the health care needs in underserved rural communities.
A rural track program is a separately-accredited residency that works with an existing ‘urban’ residency program. Residents spend greater than 50% of their time on clinical rotations and didactic experiences at rural training sites. Like many rural training programs, our program is structured in a 1-2 format, with residents spending their first year in an urban hospital, doing clinical rotations and continuity clinic with residents in our partner urban program. Following the first year of training, our residents spend their second and third years training in rural hospitals and family medicine clinics.
Partners
Our program is paired with the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Family Medicine Residency Program based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
PGY-1 residents will train at Washington Regional Medical Center and conduct their continuity clinics at the UAMS Family Medical Center in Fayetteville.
PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents will spend most of their time in neighboring Carroll, Madison, and Boone Counties.
Mercy Hospital Berryville serves as the rural hospital, and residents will be assigned to the Washington Regional Eureka Springs Family Clinic or to the Mercy Clinic Family Medicine – Berryville for continuity clinic. Residents may also complete rotations with Boston Mountain Rural Health Center in Huntsville, a Federally-Qualified Health Center serving the region.
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Our Family Medicine Residency Program has been training new doctors in Northwest Arkansas since the 1970s. This new program is focusing on rural communities.
