Longitudinal Training

The Utah Valley Family Medicine Residency program has 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.

  1. 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.
  2. In the second year, residents spend about 40 percent of their time in the Family Medicine Center.
  3. By the third year, 60 percent of a 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 or the Women's Health Fair; conducting skin, colon, and breast cancer screenings; kidney screenings; doing global humanitarian work; and serving as event physicians.

Longitudinal Schedule

Clinic

  • 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 L&D and peds months
  • PGY-2: Every 8th night, on average — increases during L&D and peds months. Includes 1 month with no call (FM Rural).
  • PGY-3: Every 18th night, on average

Night Float

We have adopted a modified night float system, concentrating overnight call over five days while on an inpatient rotation. These night float shifts are the same as the call averages above.

Additional Experience

  • ACLS, ALSO, ATLS, 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