Duke Family Medicine Center
The Duke Family Medicine Center is the primary ambulatory clinic where residents and faculty practice. Established more than 30 years ago, the center serves as the medical home for more than 13,500 patients and has over 35,000 patient visits a year.
Each resident is assigned a panel of patients they will see in continuity during their three years at the Duke Family Medicine Center. Residents spend one to five half days a week at the center, depending on rotations and other responsibilities. Residents work in an interdisciplinary team, teach students, and have practice management and quality improvement responsibilities at the center. They also conduct group visits through CenteringPregnancy®.
Duke Regional Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital is a 369 bed community hospital, still commonly referred to by many as Durham Regional Hospital. Our residents spend two months on Labor and Delivery here, and our Family Medicine Inpatient Service is at Duke Regional Hospital.
Duke University Hospital
The Duke University Hospital is a 762-bed, tertiary care center conveniently located down the street from the Duke Family Medicine Center. Residents rotate on the following services in this hospital: inpatient pediatrics, full-term nursery, and emergency medicine, and have the option of many elective rotations here.
Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center
The 264-bed Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center is located just down the street from the Duke Family Medicine Center. Residents rotate on the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Inpatient Surgical Service, Emergency Department, and Inpatient Psychiatric Consult Service in addition to elective opportunities.
WakeMed
Located in Raleigh, NC, residents complete training in this high-volume and well-run outpatient pediatric clinic, part of WakeMed Health System.
Community Health
Residents also work at various sites in the Durham community during their community medicine longitudinal community experience in the PGY II and III years. Every resident is assigned to one of the following sites:
A: Lincoln Main : This is a federally qualified health center that is part of Duke Health. Has a good number of Spanish-speaking patients but there are many in-person interpreters, and the provider does not have to speak Spanish to see patients there. Good wrap-around services for patients - mental health, financial services, patient education, and pharmacy.
B: Lincoln Walltown : Mixture of Spanish speaking and English-speaking patients; 20:80%. Smaller clinic setting with things like point of care lab work. Lots of chronic disease management with almost exclusively an adult population of patients. FQHC site part of the Duke Health system.
C: Lincoln Holton: Primarily English, ~25-50% Spanish-speakers during a half-day. No in-person interpreter will have to use Blue Phone, but if you do want to practice, Virgil (the NP working there) can help triage which patients would be best to do this with or can help translate. Virgil is very knowledgeable, enjoys teaching/comfortable with learners, and has been working at Holton for 15 years with the same nurse and front desk staff who are all lovely and enjoy having us there. If there are learners present (usually 1-2 PA students), you'll typically split up the patients which can bring your total patients to just 2-3 depending on no-show rate. There are also appointments after 5 PM if you want to stay later to see more patients (totally optional). FQHC site part of the Duke Health system.
D: Granville Vance Public Health Dept: Mix of English/Spanish speaking with mostly English-speaking patients. Would like to make MAT a significant part of their practice, enjoy working with vulnerable patients. Distance to drive is further than other sites and uses a different EMR than Duke, but the concentration of MAT is unique to that clinic and won’t be possible at Duke.
E: Healthcare for the Homeless (Lincoln): Lincoln Community Health Center operates a Healthcare for the Homeless Clinic. provides comprehensive medical and social services to homeless adults. Recognizing that homelessness and health are closely linked, their goal is to improve the overall wellbeing of homeless individuals through primary care and case management services offered on site and in collaboration with other service providers in the Durham area.
The clinic welcomes men and women (18 years old and above), who are living in emergency shelters, transitional housing, domestic violence shelters, on the streets, in cars, in the woods, or doubled up in unstable housing. They also provide services for up to one year after the individual has obtained stable housing and will assist with transition to another provider at that time if necessary.
-Management of chronic health conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.
-Hospital follow-up care
-Walk-in acute or urgent care
-Mental health and substance abuse screenings and referrals
-Routine Gynecologic care
-STD testing
-Access to medications, lab work, and diagnostic studies
-Referrals to specialty and dental care
-Translation and transportation
F: Duke University Student Health Service: Offers a wide range of primary care services to Duke Students including primary care, allergy care, vaccines, lab tests, sexual and reproductive health services, nutritional serives LGBTQIA+ health and gender-affirming care, and virtual visits.
G. Lincoln Lakewood
H. Lincoln Lyon Park
Micro-Based Clinical Sites
The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health partners with Lincoln Community Health Center (a FQHC) to operate micro clinics Walltown Neighborhood Clinic and Holton Wellness Center. These micro clinics help ensure that each member of the neighborhood gets regular check-ups, preventive care, and easy access to affordable care for chronic illnesses.
Our community health experience is done longitudinally instead of a block. Starting in the second year, residents spend each Monday afternoon at a secondary community clinic of their choosing, in addition to their continuity clinic at the Duke Family Medicine Center. In addition to our community micro based clinics sites, residents can choose from one of the clinical sites below for their secondary continuity clinic.
Lincoln Community Health Center
Lincoln Community Health Center is Durham's Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Several of our residents, particularly those who are Spanish-speaking and want to provide chronic care management to underserved communities. Additionally, all residents spend time during their population health blocks in Lincoln's Healthcare for the Homeless clinic, which was founded by a former Duke Family Medicine resident.
Granville Vance Public Health
The mission of the Granville Vance Public Health is to provide full spectrum primary care. This is a great site for residents interested in providing MAT or MOUD.