Forrest General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
Mission Statement:
"To recruit, train, and retain academically excellent family physicians who can provide comprehensive and compassionate primary care to the diverse community we serve."
Our Program
Forrest General Hospital Family Medicine Residency opened its doors in 2014 as an unopposed program built on the mission of inspiring world-class care. Our residents have direct guidance in how we shape our residency, our only criterion being constant improvement. Our goal is to produce the best possible physicians.
To date, the Forrest General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program maintains a 100% ABFM board passage rate on the first attempt. The Forrest General Hospital (FGH) Family Medicine Residency Clinic (FMRC) is an unparalleled ambulatory clinic for residents. In addition to their family medicine continuity clinics, our residents provide acute care and occupational medicine services for all employees of Forrest General Hospital.
The patient experience is also exceptional at the FGH FMRC. We embrace the medical team model and have a clinical pharmacist, a social worker, advanced practice providers, and wellness nurses as members of our care team. Our residents are members of the joint FGH/Hattiesburg Clinic Accountable Care Organization (ACO). This not only provides education in Population Health but also a direct opportunity to practice 21st-century family medicine with direct economic consequences. Lastly, our residency faculty run clinical research for the Hattiesburg Clinic. This provides access to cutting-edge treatments for FMRC patients and a rare educational opportunity for our FGH residents.
The FMRC is physically located on the first floor of the Hattiesburg Clinic, PA, conveniently located directly across the street from FGH. The Hattiesburg Clinic is our partner physician group and is the largest multi-specialty group in the state of Mississippi. Most of our specialty rotations are with Hattiesburg Clinic physicians and often in the same building as the FMRC. In addition to well-equipped examination rooms, the FMRC has a large procedure room, resident work areas, a centralized checkout room, and a conference room. Most ancillary services are offered within the Hattiesburg Clinic and are readily accessible. Most importantly, we are fully integrated electronically with our Epic medical record system, in the FMRC, the hospital, and Hattiesburg Clinic.
Because Forrest General Hospital is a second medical home for our residents, we built a state-of-the-art Graduate Medical Education Department in FGH. This residency-exclusive area, named after the Program Founder, Dr. T. Eric Hale, houses collaborative work areas for the adult and pediatric services, several administrative offices and resident work rooms, two conference rooms for morning and noon didactics, two sleep rooms with en suite bathrooms, a resident lounge, kitchen, locker room, and exercise room. It is truly the home base for our program.
Excellent resident education and quality patient care are our priorities. We provide strong procedural education and integrate practice management such as documentation, coding, and billing into your clinical experience. The resident experience at Forrest General is comprehensive, preparing our graduates to practice in any setting.
