Our Residency Program

The TriStar Southern Hills Family Medicine Residency Program, located in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, is a premier destination for graduate medical education.

Our program is renowned for its comprehensive and rigorous training, providing residents with a well-rounded education that equips them to excel in the dynamic field of family medicine.

Our faculty consists of dedicated and experienced specialists and resident physicians benefit from one-on-one mentorship and individualized education. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and collaborative learning environment, ensuring that residents matriculate with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to provide exceptional medical care to their patients.

Mission Statement

The TriStar Southern Hills Family Medicine Residency Program’s mission is to develop the next generation of physicians and physician leaders who are capable of providing broad-spectrum, evidence-based Family Medicine in a variety of settings. We are driven by a single mission: Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.

This program is designed to offer residents a rewarding, educational environment where residents are provided individualized learning opportunities by faculty and staff who support and sustain one another throughout quality care delivery. Our faculty are committed to ensuring the residents' clinical experience and educational needs are fulfilled while expanding residents’ perspectives to be inclusive of cultures, values, and ideas.

Program Overview

The Family Medicine Residency Program at TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center is an ACGME-accredited, structured three-year program focused on providing our residents with the experiences needed to provide comprehensive care to patients of any age.

Our residency program offers academically and clinically rigorous training, and our dedicated faculty support our medical residents with experience to enhance their medical knowledge, patient care skills, practice-based learning, systems-based practice, professionalism, and interpersonal skills.

The curriculum is designed to provide broad clinical exposure in acute and chronic care occurring in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Our medical residents earn a great degree of autonomy in overseeing patient care as they demonstrate growth in the ACGME competencies.

We are affiliated with TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center, a 126-bed hospital that has provided high-quality healthcare to citizens of Davidson and surrounding counties for over 40 years. The hospital is committed to providing excellent training opportunities, and the residents will work closely alongside collegial attending physicians.

As a graduate of our program, you will be capable of independently caring for all age groups, managing complex medical conditions and performing common office procedures.

Curriculum

PGY-1

Rotations

Curriculum

PGY-2

Rotations

Curriculum

PGY-3

Rotations

Conference Schedule

Southern Hills Family Medicine Residency Program provides residents with a robust didactic curriculum that encompasses lectures, small group discussions, workshops, and simulation.

Structured opportunities for evaluation of clinical acumen and procedural skills through mock codes and Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) will also be provided.

  • Clinical topics are presented in an interactive style and on a revolving 18-month schedule.

  • Topics range from all medical subspecialties to patient care, practice management, and health systems management.

  • Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement Conference

  • Journal Club

  • Physician Wellness

  • Quality Improvement

  • Practice Management

  • Physician Leadership Series

  • Professional & Medical Ethics Conference

  • Residents-As-Teachers

  • Research Symposium

  • ABFM In-Training Exam

Sports Medicine

Primary Care Sports Medicine track provides medical education and training for sports medicine area of concentration. It is designed to surpass the requirements for the Southern Hills Family Medicine residents. It may be pursued by those who are interested in fellowship education in Primary Care Sports Medicine. The program includes additional sports medicine training that includes event and team coverage, journal club, sports medicine workshops, and other scholarly activities.

Goals and Objectives

  • Provide structured training in Primary Care Sports Medicine and Musculoskeletal Medicine

  • Participate and act as team physician providing mass event coverage under the guidance of sports medicine faculty

  • Develop and enhance specific skills

    • Musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic examinations

    • Musculoskeletal Radiology

    • Diagnostic and Interventional Musculoskeletal and Sports Ultrasound

    • Joint and Soft Tissue Injections

    • Rehabilitation

    • Bracing, Splinting and Casting

    • Fracture Care

  • Scholarly activities in sports medicine

    • Regional or national conference podium presentations

    • Regional or national poster presentation

    • Regional or national case presentations

    • Original research

  • Longitudinal didactic sports medicine exposure

    • Didactic lectures

    • Hands-on workshops

    • Journal clubs

  • Provide longitudinal mentoring by sports medicine faculty

Benefits

Access to health, dental, vision and disability insurance is made available to residents on the first day of employment.

  • 401(k)

  • Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Life Insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • 3 Weeks Paid Leave

  • On-Call Meal Stipend

  • One-Time Orientation Stipend for New Residents

  • Use of Electronic and Mobile Devices

  • Free On-Site Parking

  • Lab Coats