Campbell University-Harnett Health Program

Program Identity & Fit

Harnett Health Internal Medicine Residency is a rural, community-based program in Lillington, NC, affiliated with Campbell University School of Medicine, explicitly organized around training internists to serve medically underserved rural populations in Harnett County and surrounding communities. Clinical training occurs across the Cape Fear Valley Internal Medicine Continuity Clinic, Betsy Johnson Hospital, and Central Harnett Hospital, with a curriculum balancing inpatient/night medicine, critical care, ambulatory blocks, and a broad menu of subspecialty electives (including POCUS, lifestyle medicine, sports medicine, and community outreach) that allow residents to tailor training toward hospitalist, primary care, or fellowship-oriented paths. The program frames its mission around physician resiliency, lifelong learning, and finding "joy" in caring for underserved patients rather than around research output, positioning itself as a career-flexible, mission-driven rural training site rather than a tertiary academic powerhouse. Its small size and individualized elective structure suggest it values self-directed residents who can define and pursue their own career trajectory within a rural-underserved framework.