USA Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

USA Health's Family Medicine Residency is a university-based program that functions with community-program intimacy, delivering full-scope family medicine (including obstetrics) through a PCMH/FQHC continuity clinic while drawing on tertiary and quaternary resources (Level 1 trauma, Level 3 NICU) at USA Health University Hospital and Children's & Women's Hospital. Research is optional rather than expected, and the program's institutional identity is instead built around broad-scope clinical training, in-house Primary Care Sports Medicine and Advanced Obstetrics fellowships, and a Primary Care Pathway addressing rural and underserved Gulf Coast communities. Distinctive features include named fellowship pathways feeding directly from the residency, mandatory rural medicine and geriatrics rotations, escalating continuity clinic exposure across PGY levels, and a small-program culture emphasizing cross-specialty familiarity and low competition for procedures. The program values residents committed to broad-scope, community-embedded primary care practice and shows particular investment in those pursuing sports medicine, obstetrics, or underserved/rural care within family medicine.