Residency Programs and Fellowships

Program Goals

Upon completion of the fellowship, graduates will be able to:

• Provide comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, neonatal, pediatric, and adult care.
• Independently perform cesarean deliveries and advanced obstetrical procedures.
• Competently manage high-risk pregnancies in collaboration with Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics specialists.
• Perform operative vaginal deliveries and manage obstetrical emergencies.
• Serve as Family Medicine faculty members with proficiency in teaching, supervision, and scholarly activity.
• Deliver evidence-based maternity care in rural and underserved communities (OB deserts).
• Maintain broad-spectrum Family Medicine skills across outpatient, inpatient, pediatric, and obstetrical settings.

Applicant Qualifications

• Graduate from an ACGME-accredited Family Medicine Residency Program.
• Hold or be eligible for an unrestricted medical license.
• Be ABFM certified or board eligible.
• Participation in at least 80 vaginal deliveries during residency training (preferred)
• Commitment to serving rural or underserved communities.

Fellowship Curriculum/Core Training Components
The fellowship provides a longitudinal one-year experience integrating advanced obstetrics, maternal-child health, faculty development, and comprehensive Family Medicine practice.

Advanced Obstetrics
Gain extensive hands-on experience managing uncomplicated and high-risk pregnancies, including labor and delivery, operative vaginal birth, cesarean delivery, obstetric ultrasound, obstetric emergencies, and consultation for complex maternal-fetal conditions.

Women's Health Procedures
Develop competency in office-based gynecologic and reproductive health procedures, including IUD and Nexplanon insertion/removal, endometrial biopsy, and other outpatient women's health services.

Maternal-Child Health
Provide continuous care across the maternal-child spectrum, from preconception counseling and prenatal care through delivery, postpartum care, newborn medicine, and pediatric care.

Newborn & Pediatric Care
Train in newborn nursery management, neonatal resuscitation, breastfeeding medicine, circumcision, and both inpatient and outpatient pediatric care.

Academic Medicine & Teaching
Prepare for leadership roles in academic Family Medicine through resident supervision, clinical teaching, procedural instruction, scholarly activity, quality improvement, and educational program development.

Comprehensive Family Medicine
Maintain broad-spectrum Family Medicine skills through continuity clinic, adult and pediatric inpatient medicine, preventive care, chronic disease management, women's health, and interdisciplinary team-based care.

Clinical Training Sites:

Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program

La Clinica de Familia (LCDF)

Women’s Medical Associates (WMA)