Family Medicine Rural Residency Track
Welcome!
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 and Texas-Mexico
"border medicine". These residents will attend the first year of residency with the
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.