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Greetings from Memorial University Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program. I hope you will take a few minutes to browse our Web site. Whether you’re a graduate student seeking a residency position or a senior medical student desiring electives, you’ll find plenty of helpful information here.
Our program is unique among family medicine residencies in that it combines the assets of an opposed program with the advantages of a large teaching and research hospital. The hospital, Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC), is a 530-bed tertiary care facility with the region’s only trauma center. MUMC has an affiliation with Mercer University School of Medicine and has been the home of Mercer’s second campus since 2007. Our entire faculty holds academic appointments in the Mercer University School of Medicine.
 Our Family Medicine Residency Program has a six-physician faculty. Our faculty-to-resident ration is 1:30. This small ratio provides an intimate environment for learning, professional dialogue, and development of collegiality. The faculty’s offices are located in the Family Medicine Center just two blocks from MUMC and are easily accessible to residents at all hours. The Family Medicine Center was built in 1993 and has 20 exam rooms, 21 cubicles for resident and student desks, and staff services. Our residents are partners with the faculty in a full-service group family medicine practice.
July 2011 marked the beginning of a new part of our residency training. We are one of only a few family medicine programs around the country actively involved in teaching integrative medicine (IMR). The IMR curriculum was put together by a few partnering institutions and is now offered by the University of Arizona as a five-year, 20-hour teaching curriculum. Our residents will be actively using this online resource to become more knowledgeable in this new and expanding part of medicine. In addition, in our program, all of our residents and faculty use iPad2s. We were able to purchase them through our IMR grant to combine the learning of the topic with telemedicine distance learning.
 Our residents and students can experience the full spectrum of care, including morning rounds, busy days in the office, and unpredictable late-night calls to labor and delivery. A typical day also includes noontime lectures most days of the week, with presentations by local and guest faculty. Noon conferences are mandatory and most residents are released from their rotations to attend. There are some rotations in which residents attend noon conferences on their rotation services instead of coming to the family medicine conferences. Our group practice makes all of this possible within the framework of a viable lifestyle that allows you to enjoy the city of Savannah.
Savannah is located on the Atlantic coast of Georgia. Tourism is a booming industry in the city. Our downtown Historic District features horse-drawn carriage rides through a series of 21 small parks (squares) lined with moss-draped oak trees. The beach on Tybee Island is just 25 minutes from the Family Medicine Center. Tidal rivers, creeks, and marshes surround Savannah. Hilton Head Island, S.C., and St. Simons Island, Ga., are within an hour's drive of Savannah. Jacksonville, Fla., is a two-hour interstate drive south of Savannah.
The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that residencies maintain high academic and training standards, and we take that very seriously. As our nation's healthcare system evolves, we are confident that the students and residents trained at Memorial University Medical Center will be prepared to practice in this new era of medicine. Join us for three years of post-graduate medical training in the Coastal Empire.
We look forward to hearing from you. If you would like further information
from us before applying, please contact our residency program coordinator,
Joanne Warman, at 912-350-8838 or warmajo1@memorialhealth.com.
Sincerely,
Robert Pallay, M.D.
Residency Program Director
Family Medicine Education
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