Memorial Medical Center Las Cruces Program

Program Identity & Fit

A community-based, three-year residency sponsored by Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, which describes itself as the only community-based, unopposed three-year family medicine residency in New Mexico and now publishes as the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. Established in 1996, it trains in a border region of southern New Mexico, and the program reports that more than 60 percent of its graduates practice in New Mexico and West Texas, many in the immediate area. Continuity care is delivered at the Family Medicine Center. The curriculum covers full-spectrum training in hospital medicine, obstetrics and pediatrics, with named emphases on border health, health policy, rural medicine and integrated behavioral medicine. Teaching is interprofessional, with pharmacy, behavioral health and social science faculty involved alongside family medicine faculty, and the program also lists fellowship training in maternal, child and reproductive health.