You are at an exciting time in your professional journey. The next three years will shape you professionally and personally for a lifelong career of service, and we’re glad that you found your way here. While medicine has made amazing strides in the past 100 years, the systems we have do not deliver equally for all. Many changes are needed, but we clearly need physician leaders with competence and compassion for our communities.

In Hendersonville, we think that ALL should have high quality and affordable healthcare, and as a Teaching Health Center (THC), we get to practice this kind of real family medicine. Being a THC means that our residency is combined with a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and we see all patients, regardless of ability to pay. In this partnership, our residents and our community both win.

Rural medicine is full of challenges: disproportionate mortality rates, higher rates of addiction, and mental illness. It is also an “opportunity desert” that has depressed access to housing, education, and employment. As a community-based program, we see these challenges as opportunities during every patient encounter as well as in larger community health projects. From day one in our program, you will engage in the issues and learn how to be a leader for change in your community.

Our curriculum is designed around giving you professional value.  Flexibility exists to tailor your education to help support your future professional goals and clinical interests, perhaps even discovering some new ones along the way. The heart of how we want to form the next generation of Family Physicians is for you to be trained to serve in any scenario you can imagine. In your intern year, you will begin to shape the rest of your training that will serve you for a lifetime of practice. As the only residents in our hospital system and community, you will train in full-spectrum family medicine that is robust and includes dedicated procedure time, high volume longitudinal obstetrics, and clinical exposure that will equip you for your future.

In residency, you will be stretched, discover new strengths, and you will be a new person by the end. In Hendersonville, we want you to find harmony in the professional and personal. We live in a beautiful part of the country and have built a supportive environment around personal wellness that values you as a colleague from day one. Our faculty and residents model balance, resilience, and long-term joy in a demanding profession.

It’s an honor that you are considering training with us, and we’re excited to meet you. Come and explore the education we offer, the values we share, and how we can help you develop into the physician leader of the future.

Accepts IMG: We welcome International Medical Graduates (IMGs) to apply; however, we are unable to sponsor J-1 visa applications at this time