The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has approved a new, three-year family medicine residency program, hosted by Victoria, Texas-based DeTar Healthcare System and Round Rock-based Texas A&M Health Science Center, according to the Victoria Advocate.
The program has permission to begin July 1, and will accept its first six residents to start in the summer of 2016. It will accept six residents each year, for a total of 18 residents in the program at a time.
The program will help provide more primary care for a population that HHS has determined is underserved by Medicaid, according to the report.
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