Louisiana State University Shreveport Program

Program Identity & Fit

LSU Health Shreveport's Family Medicine Residency is a university-based program with substantial community-affiliated training, blending high-volume, hands-on inpatient experience at the university medical center with ambulatory and community clinic exposure. The program's defining feature is an unusually deep procedural curriculum for family medicine, extending beyond basics into EGD, colonoscopy, LEEP, vasectomy, obstetric ultrasonography, operative obstetrics, and a robust dermatology track, supported by in-training credentialing to prepare graduates to secure procedural privileges post-graduation. Faculty maintain named areas of special interest (sports medicine, rural medicine, geriatrics, office-based research, behavioral medicine, medical informatics), and residents progressively take on supervisory and teaching roles over interns and medical students in years two and three. The program explicitly prepares graduates for the full spectrum of practice settings—rural, small-town, metropolitan, and academic—reflecting a broad-scope generalist identity rather than a narrow fellowship pipeline.