University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine-Capital Region Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

A community-based, unopposed residency at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Medicine and operating within MU Health Care following the medical center's integration into the system in January 2024. All three years of training and the program's local administration are based in Jefferson City rather than on the university's Columbia campus. Clinical affiliations named by the program include a local multispecialty physician group, SSM Health, Compass Health and A.T. Still University's Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. Residents carry a continuity clinic and train in obstetrics, and distinctive offerings include an integrative medicine curriculum begun in 2012 that the program describes as among the first in Missouri, point-of-care ultrasound, osteopathic manipulation training, botulinum toxin instruction and simulation center work. A rural clinic track is available, and the program reports small-group teaching, with internal medicine rotations typically capped at two students and two residents. Call averages about every tenth night, with a protected post-call day and fewer call nights in each successive year.