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Located in Lafayette, La., University Medical Center (UMC) provides medical, obstetrical, pediatric, and surgical services. UMC is owned by the State of Louisiana and operated by Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division.

In 1983, UMC opened with 186 patient rooms. The hospital's upper floors house the labor and delivery suite, newborn nursery, neonatal intensive-care unit, intensive-care unit, telemetry unit, other inpatient beds, an endoscopy suite, and other patient-care units. The ground floor houses UMC's emergency department, general and specialty clinics, radiology, operating rooms, cardiology, clinical laboratory, blood bank, pharmacy, conference rooms, Voorhies Auditorium, learning resource center (library), LSU faculty offices, administrative offices, and the cafeteria.

On July 1, 1989, the residency program moved to UMC from Walter O. Moss Hospital in Lake Charles, La. In 1997 the program moved into UMC's new 11,300-square-foot Family Medicine Center (FMC). It contains twenty examination rooms, two procedures rooms, a nurses' station, two treatment rooms, the residents' professional room, two conference rooms, Family Medicine faculty offices, a business office, and the patient reception area. There is also a small kitchen, break room, and locker area for employees and medical students. A covered walkway connects the FMC to UMC's main hospital building.

The FMC is the site of resident continuity clinics. During assigned clinics, residents have two rooms available for use. Each resident has a desk area in the FMC residents' professional room. There is also a small reference library available to the residents. There are two procedures rooms in the FMC for minor surgery and colposcopy. During procedures rotations, residents work in these rooms, as well as the endoscopy suite in the main hospital building. Family Medicine faculty are available for hands-on instruction in EGD, colonoscopy, and flexible sigmoidoscopy.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) is directly across the street from UMC. When on the Sports Medicine rotation, residents serve as the doctors in the clinic for the athletes. Residents are also assigned to local high-school and ULL athletics while on this rotation.

Beginning in PGY 2, residents are assigned to round at a local nursing home approximately once a month.