Family Medicine Residency
Family Medicine Residency
Mission Statement
Our mission is to develop family physician leaders who will innovate change in local communities and who will help create solutions to national challenges, improving the health of the populations they serve.
Equal Opportunity
Individuals and communities thrive when connected with others who understand, support, and advocate for them. We welcome and support students, residents, staff, faculty, and patients from all backgrounds, and we aim to foster an environment of belonging and respect for everyone.
Training Highlights
- Our program maintains continued ACGME accreditation.
- Service to unique clinic populations—former refugees, patients seeking gender affirming care, unhoused people, and care for patients needing HIV PrEP, chronic hepatitis C management, and medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder.
- Opportunity to pursue an international Spanish language development elective during intern year.
- A strong focus on obstetric training, with a core prenatal care rotation, and opportunities for elective rotation experiences within OB triage, OB ultrasound, and high-risk prenatal clinics.
- Robust sports medicine and musculoskeletal training, including rotations with sports-medicine trained family physicians, in-office ultrasound exposure, and rotations at the acute injury clinics at local ski resorts.
- Point-of-care ultrasound instruction starting intern year, focusing on musculoskeletal and obstetric exam skills.
- At least one month spent in a rural community (housing provided), which includes the option to work with physicians on an Indian Health Services (IHS) site. Longitudinal rural experiences are an option.
- Enhanced training in pediatric care, including for adolescent health, and providing mental health and trauma-informed care to children.
- Structured opportunities for research publications and journal article reviews.
- Additional training in health policy and advocacy, and lifestyle medicine.
- Optional in-depth research track with an extra year of research-focused training and mentoring during residency through the Utah StARR Program.
Populations in Salt Lake City
With a population of over 1,000,000 people in the greater Salt Lake area, the region is rapidly evolving:
- One in five people speak a language at home other than English.
- Approximately 20% identify as Hispanic or Latino.
- Over 10% identify as either Asian, Black, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaskan Native, or multi-racial.
- As a major refugee resettlement city, tens of thousands of former refugees have re-located to Salt Lake over the years, including groups from Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq, Vietnam, the former Soviet Union and Burma (Myanmar).
- Approximately 5% of Salt Lake City adults identify as LGBTQ+, one of the highest rates in the country.
- The area is religiously varied with well-established Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Native American, Unitarian, and Interfaith communities.
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