Unity Health-White County Medical Center Program

Family Medicine Analyst Verified · Oct 19, 2026

Unity Health-White County Medical Center Program

Unity Health-White County Medical Center Program is a residency program specializing in Family Medicine, located in Searcy, Arkansas, directed by Dewey R. McAfee, DO and coordinated by Karen Pearson. The program accepts applications through December 31, 2026 and holds an accreditation status of Probationary. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or (501) 380-2299. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

A three-year ACGME-accredited residency at Unity Health-White County Medical Center, a community teaching hospital in Searcy, Arkansas, about an hour from Little Rock. It takes six residents per class and is one of five ACGME-accredited residencies run by the health system's graduate medical education department, so the setting is opposed. Residents rotate across several Unity Health sites, with family medicine clinic blocks alternating against emergency medicine, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, inpatient psychiatry, geriatrics, medical intensive care, dermatology and pediatrics. A four-week family medicine night float each year replaces a traditional call schedule. Six elective blocks may be grouped into emergency, psychiatry, clinic, hospitalist or general concentrations, and the program reports procedural training in central lines and chest tubes plus simulation lab access.

Who it fits

An applicant seeking a small rural community program with broad procedural exposure and electives that can be shaped toward hospitalist, emergency or outpatient practice.

Research intensity

Low; the program reports that its graduate medical education department encourages resident projects and supports publications and presentations through a director of research, but describes no required research curriculum or protected time.

Career orientation

Primary Care / Community Practice.

Important

Applications are taken only through ERAS. Three letters of recommendation and an MSPE are expected, ECFMG certification is required by March of the application year where applicable, J-1 sponsorship through ECFMG is the only visa route named, and observerships are not permitted.

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