Physicians
Residency
General
Information
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Graduate
Medical Education at Physicians
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway (PMCC) provides a network of
health care services, encompassing preventive medicine
to intensive care.
The
breadth and scope of this system ensures residents will
see a diverse range of patients. It also makes PMCC
the perfect environment in which to complete residency
training that will prepare you for the great changes
taking place in health care delivery.
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway, a major teaching and referral
hospital, is the heart of the Physicians system. Located
on a large campus near downtown Birmingham Alabama,
the medical center is a strong, vibrant institution
with a $100 million investment in medical technology.
Critical
care is a major component of Physicians Medical Center
Carraway because of its role as a tertiary care facility.
In fact, a significant percentage of operational beds
in the medical center are dedicated to critical care
use.
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway clearly emphasizes cardiology,
cardiac surgery and neurosurgery services. In addition,
the medical center has several areas of special interest,
including:
A hyperbaric medicine unit used to treat conditions
such as carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene and osteomyelitis.
more
The Physicians Wound Care Center treats problem wounds
with advanced biopharmaceutical techniques.
The
medical center has been firmly committed to medical
education since it created an internship program in
1919. It now offers an accredited transitional postgraduate
year, as well as accredited residency programs in family
medicine, general surgery and internal medicine.
The medical center maintains a close working relationship
with the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UASOM).
Medical students from UASOM and other schools regularly
participate in assigned and elective rotations at Physicians.
Physicians
collaborates with the UASOM residency program in anesthesiology,
serving as a training site for residents in that program.
Norwood
Clinic
One of the great strengths of the Physicians
system is its close working relationship with Norwood
Clinic.
Norwood
Clinic was founded in 1926 by Dr. C.N. Carraway. Like
his friends, Drs. Charles and William Mayo, he envisioned
a hospital and neighboring multispecialty clinic working
hand-in-hand to provide outstanding patient care. Today,
the clinic is owned by the physicians, board-certified
in a number of medical specialties, who practice at
Norwood Clinic.
The
physicians in these and other medical groups serve as
full-time attending faculty, and their proximity to
the hospital gives residents a wealth of opportunities
to manage patients in an ambulatory setting.
A
Physicians Residency
There is a truly collegial atmosphere in Physicians
residency programs, an atmosphere born of mutual respect
between residents and attendings. People are on a first
name basis and take time to learn about one another.
Attending physicians view themselves as mentors. The
emphasis is on sharing information and supporting residents
as they develop skills and experience to increasingly
take on more responsibility for patient care. Residents
have the space to learn and the security of knowing
attending physicians are always ready and willing to
support them.
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Physicians residency also offers an optimal mix of academic
and practical medicine. Residents are exposed to the
pragmatic demands of a daily medical practice, but this
is only part of the picture. Many physicians in the
Physicians system are engaged in significant research
projects, and every patient on the campus is available
for teaching purposes. This ensures residents see a
large number of patients and a wide variety of clinical
problems in an environment where bedside manner and
the pursuit of knowledge are both valued.
Because
Physicians is a dynamic system, rapidly evolving to meet
the needs of the future, it offers residents a rare
opportunity to learn how to provide quality care in
a radically changing delivery system.
Daily
Concerns
People learn best in a warm, supportive environment.
That is why Physicians devotes so much effort to fostering
a collegial relationship between attendings and residents.
That is why the residency programs at Physicians strive
to maintain an appropriate balance between supervision
and independence in patient care.
That
is why residents are often allowed to structure their
own call schedules. A residency is an exciting time
of rapid learning and personal development, a time when
the support of family and friends is very important.
Developing their call schedules gives residents more
flexibility to balance demands of the educational program
with other aspects of life.
Unlike
many other programs, Physicians does not burden residents
with the minutiae of medical care. Allied health professionals
perform tasks that are often assigned to physicians
in training in other institutions. This frees Physicians
residents to care for patients and focus on the goals
of the educational program.
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway
Department of Academic Affairs
1600 Carraway Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama 35234
205.502.6358
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