University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

UNMC's Family Medicine Residency is a university-affiliated program built around multiple distinct tracks - Traditional, Community Health Center, US Air Force, and UNMC-only Advanced Family Medicine Training - each targeting a specific practice orientation, from rural underserved medicine to military family practice to urban community health. The Community Health Center Track, anchored at One World Community Health Center, immerses residents in a high-acuity, uninsured, majority-Spanish-speaking and refugee patient population with integrated behavioral health, substance use, and gender-affirming care, requiring bilingual capability or active Spanish-language training. A mandatory two-month rural rotation across small Nebraska towns (Lexington, McCook, Auburn, Minden) reinforces a rural/underserved practice mission threaded through the entire program, distinct from the military-affiliated and traditional tracks. Research is structurally supported (funded conference travel, GME research collaborative, research journal, annual symposium) but not positioned as the program's central identity relative to its practice-oriented, community-embedded tracks.