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Our residency program combines a community-based approach with an innovative curriculum, excellent inpatient experience, and a strong outpatient procedural program. Our faculty are experienced clinicians who are dedicated to teaching residents and helping them develop their full potential. Those factors, together with the great quality-of-life enjoyed by our residents, make for a great residency experience at our program for the right candidates.
If you visit Alexandria and spend time with our faculty and residents, you may find that you don't want to leave. We look forward to talking with you and showing you what our program has to offer.
With warm regards, Brian Elkins, M.D., FAAFP Program Director
More details about our program: Program Type: Our program is based at a community
hospital, Rapides Regional Medical Center, and is sponsored by LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport. Other
Residencies: There are no other residencies in the primary hospital. Call Schedule: Weeknight
call is covered by residents on night float rotations. Residents on other services provide weekend coverage, resulting
in a call frequency of 1:10 (PGY-1) and 1:20 (PGY-2 and PGY-3). All call is in-house. Resident-to-Faculty Ratio: The
resident-to-faculty ratio in the Family Medicine Center ranges from 2:1 to 4:1. Procedures Taught in the FPC: The Family Medicine Center is well-equipped
and provides ancillary services such as EKG, X-ray, lab, pulmonary function testing, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring,
24-hour Holter monitoring, 30-day event monitoring, fetal non-stress testing, and more. Joint injection and aspiration,
reduction and casting of closed fractures, and obstetric ultrasound are also performed in the FPC. The nearby Procedure
Suite offers such services as EGD, colonoscopy, colposcopy, cervical
cryotherapy, dermatologic surgery, vasectomy, neonatal circumcision, and treadmill ECG. Salary and benefits: The
base salary and benefits are determined by the Louisiana State Legislature on an annual basis and apply to all state-funded
programs throughout Louisiana. Residents in our program receive additional incentives through our supporting hospital,
Rapides Regional Medical Center, which can be discussed individually with applicants. |
Many factors are important when you consider a family medicine residency
program: the faculty, the residents, the location, procedural training, and more. In addition to the quality of the
training program, your quality of life and the needs of your family must be considered.