For physicians called to underserved communities, complex care, and courageous presence.
Train where medicine meets complexity, resilience, and hope. At Cahaba’s Urban Campus, you’ll learn to practice full-spectrum family medicine in a setting shaped by inequity, deep need, and extraordinary strength. This is a residency for physicians who want more than broad training… they want to be formed for the places that ask the most of them.
Rooted in a faith-informed mission and immersed in an underserved urban community, our residents grow into clinically excellent, deeply compassionate physicians… supported by mentors, shaped by shared purpose, and prepared to care for patients on the margins in Birmingham and far beyond.
Why
Urban?
Our Urban Campus prepares residents to deliver whole-person care in high-acuity, resource-stretched environments where trust matters, adaptability matters, and presence matters. Here, you won’t just learn how to manage complexity… you’ll learn how to stay steady within it, shaped by close mentorship and a community that shares the work.
What makes Urban Distinct
Distinctive training for physicians called to underserved communities, complex care, and mission-driven medicine.
Care at the edges
Train in an underserved urban community where healthcare justice is not a talking point… it is daily practice.
“You’re not just choosing a program. You’re choosing the kind of doctor you’re becoming.”
Faith-shaped formation
Join a mission-minded learning environment that values compassion, sacrifice, service, and the dignity of every person.
Full-Scope Mastery
Build confidence across inpatient medicine, women’s health, behavioral health, procedures, and complex outpatient care.
Prepared for anywhere
Graduate ready to serve in underserved neighborhoods, hospital settings, street medicine, global clinics, and wherever the need is greatest.
Global Footprint
Each resident receives a fully funded International Medicine rotation every year
Training Beyond Exposure
We do not believe in shallow exposure.
We believe in formation through repetition, responsibility, and real patient need.
It is training built around readiness.
Clinical Excellence
Advanced Procedures
Endoscopy, POCUS, stress testing, spirometry, central lines, paracentesis, lumbar punctures
Women’s Health & OB
IIUD/Nexplanon, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, full-spectrum prenatal care, high-volume obstetrics
Integrated Urban Care
HIV medicine, addiction medicine, wound care, behavioral health integration
Community-based Specialized Care
Street medicine, shelter-based care, home visits, foster care group home visits
Unique Outreach
Foster Care Group Home visits & Osteopathic Recognition.
Derm & MSK
Biopsies, excisions, complex joint injections, osteopathic recognition
Inpatient Acuity
Our residents are the heartbeat of the hospital. You will care for patients in high-stakes inpatient and ICU settings, develop procedural skill under pressure, and grow into the kind of physician who can lead with both competence and composure.
“Here, high-acuity training doesn’t mean getting thrown in alone. It means growing through real responsibility with close mentorship, repetition, and a team that wants you to thrive.”
By The Numbers
Our graduates don't just meet requirements; they exceed them.
1,147
Average Inpatient Encounters
Average Inpatient Encounters
227
Average ICU Encounters
Average ICU encounters
90+
C-Sections for Advanced OB residents
Vaginal Deliveries
Ready to make an impact?
Come train where faith, justice, and full-spectrum medicine meet.
Schedule a rotation and see what it looks like to be built for the edges.
