Dr. Brimberry welcomes you to the Rural Track Program Family Medicine Residency at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus. This Rural Track Program for family medicine residents will be one of only a few Rural Track Program residencies to be accredited by the ACGME in the state of Arkansas. Born out of a federal Health Resources and Services Administration Rural Residency Program Develop grant in 2020, the program expects to be accredited by the ACGME in late 2022 and will accept its first class of residents in July 2023.
Our Rural Track Program residency will provide a 1-2 model for training, in which our first-year residents spend the majority of their time training in Fayetteville at Washington Regional Medical Center alongside the family medicine residents from the Family Medicine Residency at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, a program that has been in northwest Arkansas since the mid-1970s.
Following this first year of foundational educational experiences, which includes adult inpatient care, intensive care, emergency care, obstetrics and nursery care at Washington Regional, you and your Rural Track Program resident colleagues will relocate to our rural training sites for your PGY2 and PGY3 training in Carroll County.
Our Rural Track Program residents will be taught by seasoned rural faculty and will have a chance to practice either in the Washington Regional Eureka Springs Family Clinic or in the Mercy Clinic Family Medicine Berryville for your continuity clinic experiences. All Rural Track Program residents will have adult inpatient and emergency medicine rotations in Mercy Hospital Berryville, a beautiful critical access hospital in Berryville, Arkansas.