The program helps residents achieve a mastery of clinical medicine with intimate connections to the community and launches them toward a rewarding career in rural family medicine.

Residents in the Duke Rural Family Medicine Residency program spend the first year immersed in the world-class training at Duke Health, and then transition to a rich rural health center and community hospital for the second two years of training and embrace full spectrum family medicine. Residents will begin their continuity ambulatory clinics at the rural Duke Primary Care Oxford clinic, allowing them to develop a panel over the full three years of residency. This 1+2 training track was born out of a commitment to health equity and aims to meet the needs of underserved rural populations.