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Asheville Family Medicine Residency
We believe that every person deserves great primary care. We believe that great primary care is care that is able to respond to the needs of a community. We believe that primary care is joyful and fulfilling work. We are a full-spectrum Family Medicine training program based in scenic Asheville, NC. Our community focused, not-for-profit residency program at the Mountain Area Health Education Center is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains and primarily serves urban and rural underserved populations of the Western NC region. In June of 2022, MAHEC became an FQHC, expanding our ability to offer the high quality care our patients have come to expect and upon which our community depends. Our primary practice site has consistently maintained the highest-level status as a Patient Centered Medical Home, helping to provide the best possible care for our patients and the best education for our residents.
Our goal at the MAHEC Family Medicine Residency Program in Asheville is to develop residents into highly skilled and compassionate physicians through collaborative, team-based care, quality education, innovative practice and evidence-informed decision making. Our graduates’ skills extend beyond the care of the individual patient into population health, community needs assessment, healthcare advocacy, scholarship and practice management in an evolving healthcare system. We train family physicians who can practice full-spectrum and community informed Family Medicine anywhere, from rural to urban and regional to global settings.
For more than 40 years, our curriculum has offered outstanding training in our Family Health Centers and our world-class hospital system. Residents have always been key contributors to our program’s environment of innovation. This comprehensive training is highlighted by strong commitments to global and community-based care, maternity care/women's health, behavioral medicine, geriatrics, sports medicine and ru Before the excitement hit her, Betsy Mikkelson says the first thing she felt was a huge sense of relief. Meaghan, her daughter and a defenceman for the Canadian women’s hockey team, had just won Olympic gold on home ice, something very few get the opportunity to achieve. “In the moment I kind of stayed pretty steady – I cried about it after – because I’m one of those people who reacts emotionally later,” Betsy said of the moment in Vancouver on a phone interview earlier this week. Meaghan also recalls the moment the buzzer sounded. She remembers looking up into the stands and waving to her family, celebrating in the CTV studio with her teammates and eventually – three hours after the game itself had actually ended – walking into a hospitality area with a Canadian flag draped around her neck and getting to share the moment with her mom for the first time. “I’m a bit of a softie when it comes to that stuff,” Meaghan said over the phone. “You can imagine the emotions that run through you, but when I saw my mom and I hugged her – she was sobbing at that point as well – that’s something I’ll never forget.” The sport is something that has helped bring the mother and daughter duo closer together. Growing up in Baltimore, Meaghan’s mom wasn’t surrounded by hockey nor did she know much of anything about it. And while her husband Bill played parts of three seasons in the NHL, it wasn’t until Meaghan started playing that her mom really began learning about the game. And she became an important figure for Meaghan to be able to turn to, especially in the early stages of her playing career. In St. Albert, Alta., where the Mikkelsons raised their three children, there were no all-girls teams or leagues, so Meaghan was forced to play with the boys for the majority of her youth career and she admits that brought on a set of unique challenges. “I’d go to the rink and I was surrounded by the boys,” Meaghan said. “We’d go on the road and it seemed kind of typical that Hill did doubt that she’d be able to get back to her old self, though. She was eight months pregnant when the WNBA season started, and she cried herself to sleep “many, many nights,” she says, wondering: Will I ever get back to where I want to be? She questioned whether it was the right time to start a family. “I had all these different thoughts, because I didn’t want to be behind. And I felt like I was just going to be so far behind,” she says. Hill leaned on yet another part of her support network to get her through those doubts. Candace Parker missed part of her second season in 2009 to have her daughter, Lailaa. Parker was the WNBA’s MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2008, and some critics called her selfish for taking a break to start a family, while others questioned whether she’d ever come back to her full speed. Parker was named a second-team all-star that 2009 season (she returned midway), she won her second league MVP award in 2013 and led the Los Angeles Sparks to a title in 2016. She’s very back. Parker’s main advice to Hill was not to panic if she didn’t feel like herself immediately when she first got back on the court. “She said it took her a full year,” Hill says. Hill started working out five-and-a-half weeks after she had Maurice, once she was cleared by doctors. Either Lighty or family or her nanny would watch Maurice during those sessions. Mystics trainer Navin Hettiarachchi helped with everything, including nutrition and taking Hill through workouts in the pool and on anti-gravity machines that allowed her to run without the full weight of her body. “He held my hand the whole way,” Hill says. Less than two months after she’d given birth, Hill started attending Mystics practices, to watch and keep up with what her team was doing, often nursing on the sidelines. Soon after, she was participating, and less than three months after she’d had Maurice, Hill was back on the court for games — just in time for tail end of the 2014 season. The ongo .