AdventHealth Redmond Program

Program Identity & Fit

AdventHealth Redmond's Internal Medicine Residency is a community-based, faith-affiliated program in Rome, Georgia, serving as the primary teaching site for a 230-bed tertiary referral hospital that draws patients from Northwest Georgia and parts of Alabama. The program is one of the largest in the state, academically affiliated with Medical College of Georgia and PCOM, and built around a 4+1 block structure with heavy elective/selective time (up to 20 weeks by PGY-3) allowing residents to shape training toward hospitalist, subspecialty, or primary care paths. Outcomes skew heavily toward hospital medicine and outpatient primary care placement, with a smaller but real stream into fellowships (pulmonary/critical care, hematology, infectious disease/critical care, PM&R) at outside institutions, indicating research and fellowship pathways exist but are not the program's central identity. Rotation sites like the Free Clinic of Rome, county health department STD/HIV clinic, and Harbin Clinic reflect a mission-driven, whole-person-care ethos oriented toward practical, community-facing clinical competence rather than academic scholarship.