Program rotations offered through the Utah Valley Family Medicine Residency provide residents with unique learning opportunities at the Merrill Gappmayer Family Medicine Center and Utah Valley Hospital.

  • Full-spectrum medicine in outpatient settings
  • Patient care teams
  • Integrated health system
  • State-of-the-art technologies
  • Electronic medical record system

We emphasize ambulatory care and give our residents comprehensive training to prepare them for any practice style.

PGY-2 Rotation Schedule

FM(O): Family Medicine Outpatient

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.

FM(I): Family Medicine Inpatient

These are two, four-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.

FM(R): Family Medicine

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.

L&D: Labor & Delivery

One four-week rotation dedicated to covering the Labor and Delivery floor at Utah Valley Hospital. During this rotation residents will assist community family practice and obstetricians in vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections.

FPIN: Scholarly Project

Second year residents have the opportunity to write and publish an evidence-based answer to a clinical question through the Family Physicians Inquiries Network.

PEDS(I): Pediatrics Inpatient

This is a four-week rotation spent on the pediatrics floor at Utah Valley Hospital 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.

PULM: Pulmonology

This rotation is spent with the pulmonologists in an inpatient and clinical environment. You will typically round with the pulmonologists in the morning at the hospital, receive mini-lectures, and then see patients in their clinic in the afternoon.

FM(C): Family Medicine Community

A four-week rotation spending time in a variety of community medicine venues (prison medical clinic, STD clinic, a hospice company, county health department).

ICU: Intensive Care Unit

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.

PEDS(I)/PEDS(S): Pediatrics Inpatient/Pediatric Specialists

Spend the mornings on the pediatric floor at Utah Valley Hospital working directly with pediatric hospitalists. Responsibilities include admitting patients, creating care plans, following-up with care, and simple procedures. Spend the afternoons rotating with Primary Children’s Hospital specialists in gastroenterology, neurology, cardiology, surgery, infectious disease and orthopedics.

EM: Emergency Medicine

This is a four-week rotation spending 100 hours with various Emergency Room physicians, providing care for minor injuries and sicknesses, as well as major traumas. Ample opportunities are available for minor procedures, sedation and intubation.

ELEC: Elective

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.