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Project Name: Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (T9C)
Applicant Title: CAHABA MEDICAL CARE
Abstract Text: 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, indicate here: HPSA, MUA/P Name of the training program: Cahaba - UAB Family Medicine Residency - Highlands Track Discipline of the residency program: Family Medicine Type of application: Expansion Eligible Entity type: Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Cahaba Medical Care Foundation (CMC). There is a partnership with UAB Heersink 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: https://www.cahabafamilymedicine.com/ Overview: 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), expanded to a second track based in an Urban FQHC in 2018 (West End, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL), and in 2022 expanded to a third track based in a Rural FQHCs in Marion, Perry County, AL/Camden, Wilcox County, AL. CMC as a whole has 22 sites serving multiple rural and urban underserved communities throughout Alabama 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 by adding a 4-4-4-4 Urban Training Track – the Cahaba-UAB Family Medicine Residency - Highlands Track – in Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL. Our measurable objectives and outcomes include developing already existing relationships in Birmingham, 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 physician shortages in Alabama. Residents will be involved in caring for an underserved urban community in Jefferson County as well as be immersed in multiple innovative curricular elements ongoing at UAB Highlands including telemedicine, integrated behavioral health, and a comprehensive lifestyle medicine curriculum. The residents will also be a part of the ACGME’s length of training pilot program - Advancing Innovation in Residency Education (AIRE) that lengthens family training from three to four years. Total resident FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for all post-graduate years of training, e.g., 12 (4-4-4) resident FTE above the baseline resident FTEs trained by the program in AY 2018-2019: 16 (4-4-4-4) Resident FTE positions requested to be funded under this program for AY 2022- 2023, e.g., 4 (4-0-0): 4 (4-0-0-0) Rotation Sites: State if residents within the applicant residency program will perform rotations at a hospital rotation site(s) that has not provided resident training in any prior academic year: UAB Hospital - Highlands, 1201 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205