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Rural Program Coordinator: Brooke Baucom
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Brooke McGaugh
Program Administrator
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(318) 675-5815

Mailing Address
1501 Kings Highway
Dept. of Family Medicine
P.O. Box 33932
Shreveport, LA 71130-3932

Jody D. Chance, MD - Site Director
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Program Director: Luke Baudoin, MD
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Program Coordinator: Shamekia Gardner
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Phone Number: (318) 675-8695
Fax Number: (318) 675-7950

https://www.lsuhs.edu/departments/school-of-medicine/family-medicine/family-medicine-rural-residency

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Welcome to the Rural Family Practice Residency Program at North Caddo Medical Center (NCMC). Our goal is to adequately prepare physicians to practice in a rural setting. There are many underserved rural areas in Louisiana that are miles away from a large medical center. Our program prepares physicians to provide comprehensive care for common illnesses in inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department settings. This enables local patients to receive most of their care close to home. Appropriate consultation or transfers are arranged, when necessary, with specialists in tertiary care settings. The facilities at NCMC include a 25-bed hospital with two operating rooms, two labor and delivery suites, emergency room, procedure room and inpatient beds, an eighty bed nursing home, and an out-patient clinic. The program includes four board-certified family physicians, who provide a broad spectrum of cradle-to-grave medical care to the patients in Vivian and its surrounding areas in Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana (population base: 30,000).