GME Program Operational Successes for 2024

• In September of 2024, Baptist Health opened a new family medicine clinic in Rose City where residents will have the opportunity to work with a population experiencing disparities in health care quality and access. The primary care provider at this clinic is a 2024 graduate of family medicine GME program, which is helping to bring quality care to the area and teaching future providers the importance of access and the difference quality health care can make in a community.

• In October of 2024, Baptist Health opened the comprehensive women’s clinic that sees women in the community regardless of insurance coverage, for primary care, OB/GYN, and high risk breast. GME residents will be able to rotate here for these services as well. The GME program is beginning work on an FM/OB fellowship through this clinic that would allow a family medicine graduate resident to spend a year training more extensively in OB/

GYN with the hope that as they take jobs throughout the state in areas with limited access to these services, they are even more equipped to meet that need. With the national OB shortage, this type of training can serve as a means to ensure mothers throughout the state have more access to medical professionals trained in OB.

• In January of 2024, Baptist Health opened an outpatient palliative care clinic that allows residents to not only learn palliative and hospice care at BHMC-NLR, but a unique way to continue to care for these patients who have needs that continue beyond a hospital stay.

• A group of GME psychiatry residents were granted an ACGME Back to Bedside grant for their “Minds Matter: Briefing Patients About the Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Team to Reduce Resistance” project. More than 100 teams submitted projects for this grant, and the GME team was one of 30 to be selected.