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Rural Family Medicine Residency at LSU Bogalusa Medical Center

Richard D. Friend, MD, Program Director

It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome you to the LSU Bogalusa Rural Family Medicine Residency Web site. This is one of a handful of residencies nationally that can prepare you for rural and remote medicine. We emphasize a caring family atmosphere that is built on integrity, sound communication, and a passion for Family Medicine.

We are committed to providing an outstanding in-depth experience in the details of Family Medicine--including the exposure to a variety of patients in a small town/rural environment and a host of procedural skills. Our procedural-skills training includes EGD, colonoscopy with hot snare electrocautery, dermatology, advance skin closures with plastic repairs, obstetrics, C-sections, ultrasound, stress ECG, and other community-available procedures. Our strengths include a faculty committed to your full experience, a staff that has a vision for excellence, and a facility that is second to none. We welcome your inquiries, visits, and clerkship/acting internship opportunities to really experience what we desire to do for this region with excellent teaching and clinical care.

Sincerely,

Richard D. Friend, MD
Assistant Professor and Program Director
rfrie1@lsuhsc.edu