Health Education Services-Flowers Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Flowers Hospital's Internal Medicine Residency is a new, community hospital-based program in Dothan, Alabama, built around a 235-bed institution that functions as a tri-state referral center for southern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida. The training model emphasizes chronic disease management in both inpatient and outpatient settings, with a continuity clinic embedded on-site and subspecialty exposure delivered through a network of named subspecialty education coordinators (cardiology, pulmonary, GI, nephrology, ID, endocrinology, hematology-oncology, rheumatology, geriatrics, critical care). Faculty composition and stated openness to research and academic growth suggest a program oriented toward producing well-rounded general internists and subspecialty-track applicants rather than a research-heavy academic identity, though scholarly opportunities are described as available. As an inaugural program, it appears to value residents willing to help establish culture and workflows in a still-developing training environment with close faculty-resident integration.