
Your Place to Learn, Grow and Flourish
At AdventHealth Redmond, we’re committed to meeting the health care needs of our families, friends and neighbors in Rome, Georgia, and the surrounding areas. As a resident in our graduate medical education program, you can count on our team to pour into your development.
From teaching you to address patient and community health care needs to offering experience with some of today’s most promising treatments and technologies, it’s our goal to help you become a physician equipped to heal bodies, ease minds and lift spirits.
Our internal medicine residency and transitional year residency programs successfully place graduates into practice in both hospital and outpatient settings, as well as further training in residencies such as anesthesiology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology and dermatology. Our graduates have pursued further training in prestigious fellowships at Medical College of Georgia and Duke University.
With both online and in-person training, now is an exciting time for medical education at AdventHealth Redmond.
Dixon Lee Freeman, MD, FACOG
Designated Institutional Official
Residency Medical Programs to Further Your Career
Here, we’re committed to providing the communities of Northwest Georgia with world-class clinical care. Our graduate medical education programs allow us to provide for those needs by preparing compassionate and competent physicians for practice and service.

Internal Medicine Residency Program
Our internal residency program aims to support your growth into an exceptional internist, competent and self-assured in the full scope of your practice from primary to critical care.

Transitional Year Residency Program
In our transitional year residency program, you’ll build a strong foundation in clinical medicine to facilitate your entry into the specialty program of your choice.
A Team to Help You Hone Your Expertise
Julie Barnes
“We’re engaged in the ambitious enterprise of training the next generation of doctors to advance health science research and patient care.”
Chief Medical Officer, AdventHealth Redmond

Dixon Lee Freeman, MD, FACOG
“At AdventHealth Redmond, you’ll learn state-of-the-art medicine in a setting focused on its commitment to community health.”
Designated Institutional Official

Brian Keefe, MD
"Wherever the future takes our graduates, our commitment is to provide a superb foundation for their careers.”
Academics Director

John S. Kirkland, MD, PhD, FACS, FSVS
“We’re exceptionally blessed to live and work in a community that has a diverse economy and unique commitment to higher education.”
Program Director, Transitional Year Residency Program

Kathryn Lohmann, MD
"However you are drawn to internal medicine, you’ll find like-minded individuals who share your passion at AdventHealth Redmond.”
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency

Welcoming Visitors
If you’re new to Rome, Georgia, or want to learn more about whole-person care at AdventHealth Redmond, we invite you to explore our community and services.
The Skills You Need for the Career You Want
At AdventHealth Redmond, we’re dedicated to preparing you to become a compassionate and competent physician, ready to contribute to your community — and to advance health care — once you complete your training.
Whether you hope to practice patient care or conduct research, we’ll help you fine-tune your skills and connect to scholarly opportunities, so you have the experience you need for the career you want in medicine.
AdventHealth Redmond is a primary regional teaching affiliate of Medical Rome College of Georgia and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the exclusive site for students’ inpatient internal medicine experience. We also accept rotation applications from medical students of unaffiliated U.S.-accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools on a case-by-case basis.