Waco Family Medicine - Institute Program

Program Identity & Fit

Waco Family Medicine is a community-based, mission-driven, unopposed family medicine residency built explicitly to produce broadly competent, full-spectrum physicians for underserved, rural, and global settings rather than subspecialists. Training occurs entirely in Waco's two community hospitals with no competing residencies, giving residents direct, high-autonomy relationships with consultants, and the program is ABPS-certified as OB Fellowship-Equivalent, reflecting unusually high obstetric volume (60-170+ C-sections, 80-100+ vaginal deliveries) and optional C-section competency. Distinctive infrastructure includes a Global Health Track with funded international electives (alumni serving in 41+ countries), a Spanish-proficiency track, an integrated Mobile & Street Medicine/Justice Transition Care program, embedded behavioral health, a Wellness Center and Teaching Kitchen addressing non-medical drivers of health, and a High/Low-OB track allowing individualized obstetric volume. The program explicitly values hard-working, service-oriented, mission-aligned residents and orients graduates toward rural, underserved, outpatient, or global practice rather than research or fellowship.