"Welcome to the Duke/Southern Regional AHEC Residency Program. Our mission is to train physicians to work in underserved rural or urban areas in North Carolina. We have been quite successful in meeting our mission and hope you will stay in the region or the state when you complete your residency requirements for board certification.

This is an exciting time to pursue Family Medicine. Primary Care has become an integral part of the discussion about health care reform our country and is helping to highlight Family Medicine as the specialty that embraces the essence of what people want from their physician – someone to provide patient/family-centered, compassionate and holistic care over their entire lifetime. 

We are the first Family Medicine Residency Program in North Carolina to be dually accredited by the ACGME and the AOA. Our affiliation with Duke University Medical Center ensures that you are training with highly qualified, experienced and diverse faculty. Most of all, we learn together. We continually seek to improve, regularly challenge conventional wisdom, and find that brightest ideas are as likely to come from our newest member, or from those we are serving, as from the senior faculty. While each residency has different strengths and characteristics, and students weigh many factors such as geography and academic reputation, it is often the sense of camaraderie among the residents and faculty that make the difference between a great residency experience and an exceptional one.

We were recently approved as a Patient Centered Medical Home, exposing residents to exceptional training in ambulatory medicine. This model teaches residents how to use electronic medical records and build their skills in caring for individual patients, while becoming leaders who are capable of managing change.
The broad inpatient experiences offered through our program allow residents to feel confident practicing hospital medicine. Night call is a valuable learning experience, but not so oppressive as to interfere with personal interests and pursuits. Because we are an unopposed program in a large and advanced health care facility, our residents never have to compete for patients, procedures or deliveries. This hospital, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, is conveniently located across the street.

Since 1974, more than 180 graduates and our Duke faculty have helped build a solid program that provides high level residency education and patient care. We educate residents that can go anywhere from here, but we’d like you to stay.

See "An Interview with a Residency Director" here!

If you are a medical student looking for a great place to work and grow, you've found it! This site covers specific information on the Duke/Southern Regional AHEC Family Medicine Residency Program. The  program operates a model family practice in which faculty and residents participate. Residents, faculty, and staff are organized into teams responsible for patient health care. Each team has nine examining rooms, a faculty office, a nursing station, and a dictation room. Leading each team is a full-time faculty family physician, who is available for advice and instruction.

You can contact our residency coordinator, Cheryl Haynes, here or go to the ERAS® site to apply (http://www.aamc.org/audienceeras.htm).

If you're a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, we have the first approved DO residency in the state. Here, you can contact our residency coordinator and print out forms and applications. You can also find links for information on the Fayetteville area.