Message from the Program Director

Welcome to the Rural Family Medicine Residency Program at Claiborne Memorial Medical Center. This program is built on a long-standing vision shared by the hospital and its dedicated medical staff to train physicians who will serve rural communities with skill and compassion.

Claiborne Memorial Medical Center serves as the cornerstone of our training, while our sponsoring institution, Willis-Knighton Health, provides strong and consistent support for this and other residency programs. With the guidance and commitment of the Claiborne Memorial Medical Center administration and staff, we offer two residents at each PGY level a unique opportunity to practice family medicine in a traditional rural setting. The primary care and community care rotations are based right here in Claiborne Parish. Specialty and subspecialty rotations are provided through Willis-Knighton at clinical sites in Shreveport and Bossier City, Louisiana.

Our core faculty of family medicine physicians brings nearly one hundred years of combined private practice experience. These physicians have been caring for patients in Northwest Louisiana and Southern Arkansas since completing their own residencies. Pediatrics and internal medicine faculty support the core rotations in this rural environment. The residency program is based primarily in the Homer and Haynesville communities. Claiborne Memorial Medical Center is the main site for inpatient, intensive care, emergency, and consultative training. Geriatric medicine takes place in clinic settings and local nursing facilities throughout the parish, and residents also gain meaningful exposure to hospice and palliative care.

It is my intent, and that of all our faculty and teaching hospitals, that upon completion of this residency, our graduates will be fully prepared to practice successfully in any family medicine setting—rural or otherwise. Our residents train in communities where they encounter a high volume of the most common diagnoses and pathologies seen across the country. Residents benefit from strong didactics and system-based learning. They follow a structured schedule of conferences and lectures with active involvement in their own education. Opportunities for scholarly activity and research are abundant and available in both rural and urban hospital settings.

My goal is to recruit and train residents who are genuinely interested in building lasting, meaningful relationships with their patients. Together, the staff and I hope to leave a legacy of exceptionally qualified physicians who will serve rural communities across America for years to come.

I look forward to reviewing your application.