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University of North Carolina Department of Family
Medicine
Jeff Heck, MD, Chair
The MAHEC Family Practice Residency Program
in Asheville, North Carolina, is an 8-8-8 program administered
by the Mountain Area Health Education Center, affiliated with
Mission Hospitals and with the Department of Family Medicine
at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The
mission of the residency program is to train and support primary
care providers who will improve the access to, and quality
of, health care for underserved populations in western North
Carolina. Some educational innovations are Problem Based Learning,
Didactic half day in weekly schedule, palm computers; “Stumpers”
game; Electronic Medical Record, and a Behavior Medicine integrated
approach. MAHEC Hendersonville Residency Program was established
as a “Rural Residency Track” in 1996 and is based
at the Hendersonville Family Health Center, a freestanding
new medical office building and at the Margaret R. Pardee
Hospital next door. From 1999 – 2004, Asheville has
taught 137 Family Medicine Clerkship students, placing students
at eighteen sites across western North Carolina.
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