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Project Name: Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (T9C)
Applicant Title: CAHABA MEDICAL CARE
Abstract Text: Project Title: Cahaba - UAB Family Medicine Residency - Frontier Track Applicant Organization Name: Cahaba Medical Care Foundation Address: 405 Belcher Street Project Director Name: Dr. John B. Waits, MD, FAAFP Contact Phone Numbers (Voice, Fax): xxx-xxx-xxxx/xxx-xxx-xxxx Email Address: xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Website Address, if applicable: www.cahabamedicalcare.com List all grant program funds requested in the application, if applicable: THCGME If requesting a funding preference, priority, or special consideration as outlined in Section V. 2. of the program-specific NOFO, please indicate here. HPSA/MUC/Rural Name of the Training Program: Cahaba-UAB Family Medicine Residency - Frontier Track Discipline of the Residency Program: Family Medicine Type of Application: Expansion Eligibility of Entity Type: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Cahaba Medical Care Foundation (CMC). There is a partnership with UAB School of Medicine for educational purposes. However, all fiscal and operational management is handled by CMC alone. Year Program First Began Training Residents: 2013 Organization website address: www.cahabamedicalcare.com Brief Overview of the Residency program: Cahaba Medical Care (CMC) is a Community Health Center (FQHC) and Teaching Health Center (THCGME) Family Medicine Residency with 12 residents per year, that has had a track record of opening an FQHC-based Rural Residency in 2013 (Centreville, Bibb County, AL) and expanded to a second track based in an Urban FQHC in 2018 (West End, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL). CMC as a whole has 19 sites and has been awarded the “access enhancer” award from HRSA 4 years in a row. Additionally, we have placed 68% of our graduates in HPSAs or underserved communities. Therefore, we are proposing to expand our current 12-12-12 residency program to 16-16-16 by adding a 4-4-4 Rural Training Track (RTT) – the Cahaba-UAB Family Medicine Residency - Frontier Track – in two of the most remote and underserved areas of our state; Marion (Perry County) and Camden (Wilcox County). Our measurable objectives and outcomes include developing already existing relationships in Bessemer, Marion, and Camden, as well as leveraging our own internal GME expertise at CMC to create a pipeline of primary care physicians ready to help combat primary care physicians shortages in rural Alabama. We will use the “1+2 RTT” format, where the first year of graduate medical education occurs in an urban area (UAB Medical West in Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL), followed by an innovative, authentic, and heavily mentored 2 years in the Frontier counties of Perry and Wilcox. Total FTE position requested to be funded: 4-4-4 FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for AY 2022-2023: 4-0-0