For physicians called to broad-spectrum care, deep community presence, and the steady work of rural medicine.

Train where relationships are long, resources matter, and physicians are still woven into the fabric of a community. At Cahaba’s Rural Campus, you’ll learn full-spectrum family medicine in places where continuity is not theoretical… it is daily life. This is a residency for physicians who want more than exposure to rural medicine… they want to become the kind of doctor a community can truly depend on.

Rooted in underserved communities and shaped by close mentorship, our residents grow into capable, adaptable physicians prepared to care for patients across generations and settings. Here, you won’t just build competence… you’ll build steadiness, belonging, and the confidence to practice wherever you are needed most.

What makes Rural Distinct

Distinctive training for physicians called to underserved communities, complex care, and mission-driven medicine.

Community Anchored Training
Care for patients across every stage of life and every care setting… building deep continuity and long-term relationships within the community.

Legacy of Learners
Train alongside faculty who were once residents here themselves… physicians who chose to stay, teach, and invest in the next generation.

Full-Scope Readiness
Build real-world confidence in inpatient medicine, emergency care, women’s health, procedures, geriatrics, and complex outpatient care.

Train Like You Will Practice
Rural medicine demands adaptability. Our residents learn to provide high-quality care in resource-conscious settings with broad responsibility and meaningful autonomy.

Advocacy & Mission
Join a program shaped around identifying unmet needs in underserved communities and building sustainable ways to meet them with compassion and excellence.

Prepared for the Long Haul
Graduate ready for rural outpatient practice, inpatient medicine, emergency care, OB, geriatrics, direct primary care, VA systems, fellowships, and underserved communities across the country.

Training Beyond Exposure

We do not believe in shallow exposure. We believe physicians become confident through repetition, continuity, responsibility, and presence over time. Rural medicine is not learned through observation alone. It is learned by showing up again and again… for the same patients, the same families, and the same community.

Full-Spectrum Rural Care
Continuity clinic, inpatient medicine, emergency care, nursing home care, and women’s health training woven into everyday practice.

Women’s Health & OB
High-volume prenatal care, deliveries, advanced OB opportunities, contraception management, and procedural women’s health.

Procedural Competency
Skin procedures, joint injections, osteopathic recognition, women’s health procedures, inpatient procedures, and resource-conscious decision making.

Continuity Across Settings
Care for the same patients in clinic, the hospital, the nursing home, and labor & delivery… developing uncommon depth of relationship and clinical judgment.

Community-Based Care
Home visits, underserved care, rural outreach, and longitudinal relationships that shape both clinical skill and personal formation.

Inpatient & Emergency Training
Develop confidence managing high-acuity patients in rural inpatient and emergency settings where adaptability and composure matter.

By The Numbers

Our graduates don't just meet requirements; they exceed them.

90+

Deliveries with Advanced OB residents

READY TO PUT DOWN ROOTS?

Come train where broad-spectrum medicine, deep community relationships, and steady presence still matter.

Schedule a rotation and experience what it looks like to become rooted and equipped for the long haul.