The Utah Valley Family Medicine Residency provides residents with an exciting and well-balanced approach to learning. We offer an environment that enhances both clinical skills and personal development. Within our multi-faceted program, you'll discover all the resources you need to succeed.
We emphasize ambulatory care and give our residents the complete scope of training to prepare them for any practice style. Our program combines a suburban working environment at the largest medical center between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, with opportunities for training specific to rural areas.
The cornerstone of our Residency is continuing improvement. Faculty and residents review the curriculum on an ongoing basis, ensuring that it is meeting the residents' educational needs. We believe the residents' feedback is essential in maintaining curricular excellence.
This is a 4 week rotation with a focus on full-spectrum medicine in the outpatient setting. Mornings are spent assisting the in-patient team
during rounds and majority of afternoons are dedicated to seeing your own set of patients at the Merrill Gappmayer clinic. One week is spent covering
nights on the inpatient service.
These are two 4 week rotations covering the family medicine inpatient service. Duties include admitting, rounding, creating and following
through with a care plan, and simple procedures on the family medicine service. The team typically consists of two interns, two senior residents, and is
overseen by the family medicine residency faculty. Teaching is provided directly by faculty and consulting specialists. Call includes one week of night
float and splitting afternoon/evening cover with the other residents on the team.
These are two 4 week rotations covering the family medicine inpatient service. Duties include admitting, rounding, creating and following
through with a care plan, and simple procedures on the family medicine service. The team typically consists of two interns, two senior residents, and is
overseen by the family medicine residency faculty. Teaching is provided directly by faculty and consulting specialists. Call includes one week of night
float and splitting afternoon/evening cover with the other residents on the team.
These are two 4-week rotations dedicated to covering the Labor and Delivery floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. During this
rotations residents will assist community family practice and obstetricians in vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections.
These are two 4-week rotations dedicated to covering the Labor and Delivery floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. During this
rotations residents will assist community family practice and obstetricians in vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections.
This is a 4 week rotations spent with local surgeons observing and assisting in their clinic and surgeries. During this rotations residents
will gain experience in caring for the surgical patient.
This is a 4 week rotation dedicated to women's health. During this rotation residents will be placed at a variety of different sites to gain
exposure to the different factors affecting women's health. Different sites include local gynecology offices, Planned Parenthood, and the Health
Departments STI clinic. Residents will have the opportunity to manage different contraception options, place IUDs, cervical cancer screenings, and
management and testing of STIs.
This is a 4 week rotation spent with local community pediatricians. Majority of time is spent in the outpatient setting gaining experience
with well child exams, acute sick visits, and circumcisions. During peak flu season residents will assist the inpatient team with morning rounds,
afternoon coverage a few afternoons out of the rotation, and 1 week of night float.
This is a 4 week rotation spent on the pediatrics floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center working directly with the pediatric
hospitalists. Responsibilities include admitting patients, creating care plans, following-up with care, and simple procedures. Lectures are given
throughout the week by local community pediatricians and the pediatric hospitalists with topics specific to providing care to the pediatric
population.
This is a 4 week rotation spent with local cardiologists. The rotation provides education from specialists learning long term management of
various cardiac problems, caring for the acute cardiac patient, and interpreting EKGs. Residents will assist the cardiologist in caring for stable
patients in the outpatient setting as well as working up patients presenting with acute symptoms.
This is a 4 week rotation focused on understanding the management and care of a variety of musculoskeletal injuries. Residents will work
with local surgeons following them in clinic and the operating room. Throughout the rotation residents will be able to improve the musculoskeletal exams
and understand the management of common injuries and when a surgical referral is indicated.
This is a 4 week rotation spending 100 hours with various Emergency Room physicians.
This is a 4 week rotation working with sports medicine trained physicians and sports medicine fellows. Residents will improve
musculoskeletal exam, diagnose common sports injuries, learn casting techniques, and joint injections. Residents are provided the opportunity to assist
with the local collegiate teams at BYU (Brigham Young University) and UVU (Utah Valley University). If interested, residents can also assist with local
high school athletics and serve as the team doctor and attend games and assist the athletic training and caring for athletic injuries.
This is a 4 week rotation with a focus on full-spectrum medicine in the outpatient setting. Mornings are spent assisting the in-patient team
during rounds and majority of afternoons are dedicated to seeing your own set of patients at the Merrill Gappmayer clinic. One week is spent covering
nights on the inpatient service.
These two 4 week rotations are spent covering the family medicine inpatient service. Duties include admitting, rounding, creating and
following through with a care plan, and simple procedures on the family medicine service. The team typically consists of two interns, two senior
residents, and is overseen by the family medicine residency faculty. Teaching is provided directly by faculty and consulting specialists. Call includes
one week of night float and splitting afternoon/evening cover with the other residents on the team.
These two 4 week rotations are spent covering the family medicine inpatient service. Duties include admitting, rounding, creating and
following through with a care plan, and simple procedures on the family medicine service. The team typically consists of two interns, two senior
residents, and is overseen by the family medicine residency faculty. Teaching is provided directly by faculty and consulting specialists. Call includes
one week of night float and splitting afternoon/evening cover with the other residents on the team.
This is a rural rotation spent in Manti, Utah with Dr. Robert Armstrong experiencing family medicine with a rural perspective. There are
many opportunities to do clinical procedures, OB care, rural ER and hospital services.
This 4-week rotation is dedicated to covering the Labor and Delivery floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. During this rotation
residents will assist community family practice and obstetricians in vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections.
This 4 week rotation is spent with local surgeons observing and assisting in their clinic and surgeries. During this rotation residents will
gain experience in caring for the surgical patient.
This 4 week rotation is spent on the pediatrics floor at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center working directly with the pediatric
hospitalists. Responsibilities include admitting patients, creating care plans, following-up with care, and simple procedures. Lectures are given
throughout the week by local community pediatricians and the pediatric hospitalists with topics specific to providing care to the pediatric
population.
This rotation is spent with the pulmonologists in an in-patient and clinical environment. You will typically round with the pulmonologists
in the morning in the hospital and receive mini-lectures and then see patients in their clinic in the afternoon.
This rotation is spent with the gastroenterologists seeing patients in their clinic, doing consults in the hospital, and becoming familiar
with various endoscopic procedures.
This rotation is spent with the intensivists in the adult and neuroshock ICUs in the hospital. You will be assigned patients in the hospital
to round on and will have ample opportunities to place central lines, chest tubes, manage ventilators, intubations, and become proficient in vasopressor
care.
This 2 week rotation is spent with neonatologists learning principals of neonatology relevant to family medicine, such as managing neonates
on ventilators, responding to high risk deliveries, and intubations. PEDS is a 2 week rotation with Pediatric subspecialists (urology, cardiology or
infectious disease).
This is a 4 week rotation spending 100 hours with various Emergency Room physicians.
This rotation gives you the freedom to hand craft your own rotations in specialties of your choice. Traditionally this has included
endocrinology, electrophysiology, diabetes clinic, international medical missions, rheumatology, behavioral health, casting and splinting, pediatric
sedation, and much more.
Rotation Schedule
| PGY-I Rotation Schedule |
|---|
| FM(O) |
FM |
| FM |
OB |
OB |
SURG |
GYN |
PED(O) |
PED(I) |
CARD |
ORTHO |
ER |
SPORTS |
| PGY-II Rotation Schedule |
|---|
| FM(O) |
FM |
FM |
FM(R) |
OB |
SURG |
PED(I) |
PULM |
GI |
ICU |
NICU/
PEDS |
ER |
ELEC |
| PGY-III Rotation Schedule |
|---|
| FM(O) |
CHC |
FM |
FM |
FM(C) |
FM ELECT |
ELEC |
ENT/BS |
URO/
OPTHO |
DERM/
ELEC |
E | LEC |
ELEC |
| ELEC |
Family Medicine Center
PGY-1: Half-day per week at the Family Medicine Center
PGY-2: Two half-days per week at the Family Medicine Center
PGY-3: Three half-days per week at the Family Medicine Center
Call (on average)
PGY-1: Every 5th night on average — increases during OB and peds months
PGY-2: Every 8th night on average — increases during OB and peds months. Includes 1 month with no call (FM Rural).
PGY-3: Every 18th night on average
Additional Experience Includes:
- ACLS, ALSO, ATLS, AWLS (held in Moab), NRP, PALS, and STABLE training provided.
- Computerized medical records.
- Moonlighting opportunities in emergency rooms, urgent care centers, and our own after-hours clinic for PGY-2 and PGY-3s.
- Dedicated didactic lectures given by specialists, faculty, and residents every Thursday afternoon.
- Simulation lab for codes, complicated deliveries, and neonatal rec
Competency-based Education
Competency-based education focuses on training an outstanding family physician and asks: What does this individual need to know? And what does he or she need to know how to do? These competencies form the ultimate goal of residency training. Specific, understandable, achievable, and measurable objectives are devised, which form an educational pathway to these competencies. Using a combination of clinical and didactic experiences, we provide residents with the necessary opportunities to achieve these educational objectives, and ultimately to reach competency in those areas essential for a family medicine physician.
Longitudinal Training
A block curriculum, in which three years of training are broken into 39 unrelated rotations, only offers the resident selective experience. This type of training does not help the resident integrate the skills and attitudes necessary to become a competent family physician.
Instead, we have adopted a modified longitudinal approach. Specific educational needs are met using select block rotations during a longitudinal experience in family medicine. The longitudinal experience begins the first week the residents arrive.
Basic knowledge and procedural skills are learned early in the residency by way of stacked, month-long rotation in pediatrics, obstetrics, and gynecology, internal medicine, and surgery. In addition, about 20 percent of the residents' first year is spent seeing patients at the Merrill Gappmayer Family Medicine Center, caring for our hospitalized patients, and delivering the babies of their private patients.
In the second year, residents spend about 40 percent of their time in the Family Medicine Center. By the third year, 60 percent of the resident's time is spent as a family practitioner. At the completion of our program, residents are able to function as highly-trained, empathic physicians in both the medical and business aspects of family medicine.
Community Service
Residents also have the opportunity to do community service such as working at the volunteer clinic, the Women's Health Fair, conducting skin, colon, and breast cancer screenings, kidney screenings, doing global humanitarian work, and being event physicians.
If you are interested in joining a program dedicated to quality post-graduate medical education, we are interested in you.