Our Mission:
It is our mission to develop competent and compassionate physicians through excellence and innovation in medical education, clinical practice, scholarship, and community service. Teaching is at the heart of everything we do. By providing diverse educational opportunities in both urban and rural settings, the program seeks to prepare future family physicians to practice within Georgia.
J. Scott Earwood, MD
706-721-8414
Shirley Sharp, DO
706-721-3156
J. Will Evans, DO
706-721-4510
Family and Community Medicine Residency Program
Health Sciences Campus
706-721-3157
800-729-3157
706-721-6123
Established in 1973, the three-year Family and Community Medicine Residency Program provides an array of unique learning experiences, including rotations at Augusta University Health, the area’s only academic medical center, and at University Hospital, the area’s largest comprehensive community hospital.
The program also provides opportunities to train in settings providing care to vulnerable local, regional, and global populations in partnership with programs in the Medical College of Georgia Departments of Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Among other core competencies, the program also offers training in point-of-care ultrasound over all three years of residency. Point-of-care ultrasonography, which is also taught throughout all four years of medical school at MCG, has the capacity to revolutionize patient care. Advances in ultrasound technology have improved ease-of-use, superior image quality and lower cost ultrasound units. Our health system’s unique partnership with Philips Healthcare ensures access to the latest and greatest in ultrasound technology.
Family and Community Medicine residents have access to a variety of clinical settings, including one-on-one training at the area’s largest community hospital and training in an academic medical center with a thriving Family and Community Medicine Center that has been recognized nationally as a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home. Educational affiliations between our university’s teaching hospital and community-based clinical venues allow residents access to a diverse group of educational environments.
Family Medicine Residents:
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