RECRUIT TRAIN RETAIN: DEVELOPING THE WORKFORCE FOR A HEALTHY NORTH CAROLINA

Southern Regional Area Health Education Center’s (SR-AHEC) role in advancing health care education and health care access is unique and multi-faceted. Helping the medical professional provide high quality care to patients drives everything we do.By offering continuing professional development to practicing health care professionals, we keep people working in allied, behavioral and public health, doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists, up-to-date on new innovations and best practices – translating into more health care professionals knowing exactly what do to about what ails their patient.

Home to Fayetteville’s first family medicine residency program, Southern Regional AHEC recruits eight new resident physicians each year to fulfill their requirements for board certification. After their three-year residency is complete, our intent is to keep those doctors working in our local communities to increase the number of primary care doctors in the region, while improving health care access to our citizens. Since 1974, more than 250 doctors have graduated from the program - with almost half of them staying to work in our nine-county region. For more information on our residency, go to familymedresidency.org