Christ Community Health Services Program

Program Identity & Fit

Christ Community Health Services Family Medicine Residency is a new, explicitly faith-based teaching health center program based in an FQHC network serving Memphis's underserved urban communities, with its continuity clinic anchored in Frayser, a historically under-resourced, high-need neighborhood. The program's identity is inseparable from its Christian mission: training is framed as discipleship for "family physician leaders specializing in underserved care," with spiritual health staff integrated alongside medical and behavioral health faculty as part of the training team. Career orientation is oriented toward safety-net and mission-driven primary care practice in under-resourced urban settings, evidenced by CCHS's related OB Fellowship, whose graduates go on to rural and underserved-focused family medicine practice, and by the health center's integrated behavioral health, dental, and pharmacy services model. The program values applicants who see medicine as an extension of religious calling and are drawn to long-term, faith-integrated service in structurally disadvantaged communities rather than research or subspecialty prestige.