Family Medicine
Residency Program

We are pleased that you have come to learn more about the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) Family Medicine Residency Program. As a program, we are committed to training residents to become family physicians who provide competent, high-quality care to individuals and families to positively impact the health of communities, with an emphasis on African American and other historically underserved communities. Through training in our program, residents build skills in providing excellent, evidence-based preventive, acute, and chronic care. The exceptional care that is modeled for and delivered by our residents occurs in a variety of settings, across all age groups, and in both traditional in-person and telemedicine formats. In keeping with the Morehouse School of Medicine vision, we further commit to developing in our residents the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care through a lens aimed at eliminating health inequities. Importantly, we achieve all of this while supporting our residents’ well-being now and in the future.

Our residents benefit from training at two Safety Net hospitals, Grady Memorial Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding. Our primary ambulatory training site is the Morehouse Healthcare Comprehensive Family Healthcare Center, where the full scope of family medicine practice and procedures are taught and performed. Residents also benefit from ambulatory training sites at the Veteran's Administration and the Grady East Point Neighborhood Clinic. Together, our training sites provide a range of experiences designed to prepare our graduates to practice in any setting.

Our residents receive training in healthcare leadership, care coordination, community engagement, population health, and practice-based research. Our point of care ultrasound curriculum prepares residents to perform common office-based ultrasound and also allows our trainees to develop skills in conducting more specialized ultrasound procedures based on their individual interests. The Morehouse School of Medicine Residency Program is one of the select programs nationally that offers the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum. As such, our residents are eligible to sit for the Lifestyle Medicine Certification Examination upon completion of our program. As future leaders of the profession, our residents serve on institutional and hospital committees as well as committees of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians. MSM Family Medicine Residents are trained to become competent, compassionate Board-certified physicians well-equipped to address the health of the whole person with consideration of the physical, mental, spiritual, and cultural aspects of the patients we serve.

Resident scholarly activity includes publication in peer-reviewed journals; completion of quality-improvement research projects; and presentations at local, regional and national conferences, earning awards for their work at each level. The MSM Family Medicine Residency Program consistently strives for excellence as a function of our commitment to the learners, patients, and communities we serve.

Riba C. Kelsey, MD, FAAFP
Assistant Professor
Residency Program Director