Our Program

Outreach

Domestic Outreach

Residents have the opportunity to serve our community through several local partnerships sharing hope and providing care to underserved patients. Some of these opportunities include mobile medical units to oversee clinics for migrant workers and their families, school-based healthcare, free community health and sports-related screenings, assisting homeless and the uninsured through Etowah Free Community Clinic and providing medical care to inmates at the Etowah County Detention Center.

International Outreach

Residents are encouraged to take a wider view of the world around them during their training. A resident may spend up to three months serving internationally in a variety of settings from mission hospital-based to rural outpatient clinics to teaching medical students and residents in training overseas. Trip coordination and funding assistance for these rotations is available through various organizations and contacts through our internationally-experienced residency faculty.

GRMC Family Medicine faculty are well-equipped to mentor and come alongside residents who wish to provide whole-person care to the far reaches of our hurting world. Our faculty have traveled to over 50 countries overseas, participating in medical and surgical clinics, disaster and crisis response, lecturing and teaching in conference and hospital settings, and assisting with food relief and construction work.

The goal of international opportunities is for residents to learn the continuum that exists in Family Medicine from inner city care to rural care to international/global care. In each context, there are similar lack of resources, socioeconomic needs, and behavioral health needs. Interchangable skill sets are needed in each place; however, cultural, religious, and ethnic differences can be challenging. We strive to provide our residents with appropriate, yet stretching, experiences for growth and development both personally and professionally. We hope to provide a lifelong model for service to others both in the US and abroad.