Program Overview

Department of Family and Community Medicine

The Department of Family and Community Medicine is dedicated to providing comprehensive medical care and training the next generation of family medicine physicians.

Education

The department offers a range of educational programs, including:

• Pre-Medical School Programs
• The Comprehensive Urban Underserved and Rural Experience Program
• Student Interest Groups
• Rural Medicine Programs
• Rotations and Shadowing
• Clerkship
• Medical Student Funding
• Residency programs, such as:
  • Cahaba+UAB Highlands Family Medicine Residency
  • UAB Selma Family Medicine Residency
    • Curriculum
    • Salary & Benefits
    • Current Residents
    • How to Apply: Selma Family Medicine Residency
  • Huntsville Residency
  • Integrated Family Medicine Residency
• Fellowships
• Preceptorship
• Alabama Statewide AHEC
• Exercise Medicine and Physical Activity Promotion

Curriculum

The curriculum for the UAB Selma Family Medicine Residency program is designed to train family medicine physicians who see the whole patient and family, and understand the social, physiological, economic, cultural, and biological factors that patients face.

PGY-1

• Family Medicine/Critical Care: 16 weeks, four 4-week blocks
• Pediatrics: 12 weeks, three 4-week blocks
• Obstetrics: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Gynecology: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Community Medicine/Health Systems Management: 2 weeks, one 2-week block
• Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Radiology: 2 weeks, one 2-week block
• Surgery: 4 weeks, one 4-week block

PGY-2

• Family Medicine/Critical Care: 16 weeks, four 4-week blocks
• Pediatrics: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Rural Medicine: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Obstetrics: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Cardiology: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Selective: 8 weeks, two 4-week blocks
• Community Medicine/Health Systems Management: 4 weeks, one 4-week block

PGY-3

• Family Medicine/Critical Care: 12 weeks, three 4-week blocks
• Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Psychiatry: 2 weeks, one 2-week block
• Sports: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Community Medicine/Health Systems Management: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• ENT: 2 weeks, one 2-week block
• Pediatrics - ambulatory: 4 weeks, one 4-week block
• Electives: 18 weeks, four 4-week blocks

Electives

Available electives include:

• Any core rotation
• Anesthesiology
• Gastroenterology
• Endocrinology
• Critical Care/Pulmonary
• Nephrology
• PICU
• Rheumatology
• Infectious Disease
• Geriatrics

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