The Deaconess Family Medicine Residency Program was approved in 1975 by the Liaison Committee on Graduate Medical Education.  Since 1975, the residency program has had continuous ACGME accreditation.

Dr. D.C. Buehner became the first program director in 1975 until his departure in 1978.  Dr. Wallace M. Adye became the part-time program director in 1978, and then the full-time program director in 1985 upon moving his private practice to the Family Medicine Center.  Dr. Kim Volz became the current Program Director upon Dr. Adye’s retirement in 1996.

The residency program moved to its current location in the Wallace M. Adye Center in 1997.  The center was named to honor Dr. Wallace M. Adye and his devotion to graduate medical education in Evansville since the program’s inception in 1975.

The first graduating class consisted of a single resident who graduated in 1976.  To date, the Deaconess Family Medicine Residency Program has graduated 119 family medicine residents.

Vital statistics:

• 100% of our graduates over the last 10 years have passed the ABFP certification exam on their first attempt.
• Our residents score in the 70^th percentile nationally of all Family Medicine residents on the annual ABFP in-training exam.
• 54% of our graduates practice in primary, secondary, or tertiary referral areas to Deaconess.
• The Deaconess Medical Group employs 11 of the graduates from our program.