Southern Regional Area Health Education Center-Duke University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

SR-AHEC is a community-based, Duke-affiliated Family Medicine residency in Fayetteville, NC, holding ACGME Osteopathic Recognition and operating within the North Carolina AHEC system, which orients it toward full-scope, community-serving practice rather than subspecialty research. Training spans a state-of-the-art Family Medicine Center, inpatient service, obstetrics, pediatrics, and a high-volume local emergency department (one of the nation's busiest), with integrated behavioral health, pharmacy, and OMT on the primary care team, and no mandatory 24-hour call. The curriculum emphasizes broad procedural exposure, global health electives with reimbursed international rotations, and post-residency Diabetes or Faculty Development fellowship pathways rather than subspecialty fellowship placement. Graduate outcomes (full-scope providers, hospitalists, urgent care, integrative care, academic teachers) and repeated resident testimony about a "family," mission-driven culture suggest the program selects for applicants drawn to community continuity, comprehensive/whole-family care, and regional or personal ties to Fayetteville/NC.