Not only do our residents and faculty encourage academic excellence, we also strive to demonstrate compassionate care through service. Our residents cared for patients who came to Atlanta immediately after Hurricane Katrina. We participate in the Migrant Worker's Project in South Georgia for two weeks every summer, caring for Mexican and Haitian workers and their families. Faculty members participate in medical missions trip, as the Program Director did to Honduras in July 2006. We touch families on a local and international level.
Our residents receive excellent training in all areas of Family Medicine. They rotate at Grady Memorial Hospital for Pediatric, Obstetric, and ICU experiences. Residents are trained in Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry at Crawford Long Hospital. We do our Pediatric Ward at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, a referral center for the whole Southeast. Our geriatrics rotation is at the Atlanta Veteran's Administration Medical Center. You can view our curriculum by clicking on the "Curricula/Rotation schedule" tab. Our family medicine service is at Emory Dunwoody Medical Center (EDMC). Emory Dunwoody is completing construction of the new Emory Johns Creek Hospital in December 2006. Our program is the only residency program there. As such, our residents are unopposed at this site. We look forward to practicing medicine in this new state-of-the-art facility! You can view the new hospital at: http://www.emoryjohnscreek.com/
Our residents have the chance to perform a wide variety of procedures. More detailed information can be found under "Applicant Information", "Procedures performed." Also of note, our entire residency didactics schedule is on line under "Didactics Schedule."
In addition to a well-seasoned faculty, the best teachers of any medical student are the patients you encounter. Grady Memorial Hospital is a living Harrison's textbook of medicine, as are our clinic patients. At EDMC, we care for common medical ailments like heart failure and pneumonia as well as more unusual conditions like malaria and pyomyositis. Our residents have awesome educational opportunities. A graduate of our program is equipped to practice in whatever environment they choose - clinic, urgent care, ICU, and OB.
Atlanta herself is an international city with an incredible variety of attractions and activities. Please see "Atlanta Sites" for an in depth listing of all that is offered. On a personal note, the Atlanta Aquarium is the largest in the world and it is outstanding. The North Georgia mountains are 1-2 hours away for camping, fishing, and the Appalachian Trail. The powder sand beaches of the Florida Gulf are a half-day's drive. If none of these things satisfy, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport can take you to almost any destination in the world. What a city!
As of July 1, 2003, I became the program director. I did my undergraduate training in Industrial and Systems at Georgia Tech, and medical school at Emory. I completed residency in Family Medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. I served in the US Army for four years at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. I have been at Emory since 1999.
I encourage you to review our web site, especially "Applicant Information." You can use the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the list of links to contact us for more information. I wish you the best in your endeavors. Whatever you do and wherever you go, I encourage you to apply your self fully to your work.
Eddie Needham, MD, FAAFP
Program Director
