Carolinas Medical Center-Union's Family Medicine Residency Program is a 2-2-2 program. Our program was established in 1997 and focuses on educating residents who would like to work in a small town, rural or suburban community. Year 1 occurs at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, a major teaching hospital. There is a strong emphasis on acute and critical care and routine obstetrics. Years 2 and 3 are based at CMC-Union, a community hospital located in Monroe, NC. These two years emphasize the knowledge and skills necessary for small town or rural family practice, which includes more ambulatory experiences, obstetrics, community medicine, agri-medicine and public and mental health.

Continuity experience for all three years will follow an apprenticeship model. The physicians at Union Family Practice serve as mentors/educators for this program's residents.

CMC-Union's Family Medicine Residency Program is accredited by the Residency Review Committee for Family Practice and fully approved by the ACGME.