We have deliberately chosen to continue with VIRTUAL ONLY interviews in the 2023-2024 interview season. We want to match exceptional applicants, and we don’t want financial or time barriers to prevent you from considering us. Finding the right fit for you is important to us, and we are confident that our virtual interview process will give you a sense of who we are and how you can succeed here.

If after your interview you want to come check us out in person to help make your decisions, we do offer no-stakes campus visits. We host these visits for ranked applicants only. The visits take place after our rank list is submitted to ensure that an applicant’s decision to attend or not cannot affect our rank decisions.

We provide fantastic training in workshops and on models, and you'll perform procedures — such as dermatologic procedures, joint and soft tissue injections, point of care ultrasound, casting and splinting, colposcopies, IUD and Nexplanon insertions, vaginal deliveries, vasectomy, cesarean section, toenail removals, and many others — for your own clinic patients. If you want to develop proficiency in a procedure we don’t currently offer in the residency clinic, we will work with you to find opportunities either on-site or through elective rotations.

We provide an immersive labor and delivery experience in the first year of the program, where you learn fantastic labor management and delivery skills from family physicians, OB/GYNs, and midwives.

Then, in your second and third years, you provide care for pregnant women on a continuity basis so that you are both their primary care provider and their primary maternity care provider.

We utilize a “night-float” system for PGY-2 and PGY-3 (senior) residents on our hospital admitting and labor service. The night resident completes overnight shifts without work responsibilities the days following these shifts. Each senior resident spends approximately five weeks a year on nights for one week at a time. As a result, the only 24-hour on-call assignments for senior residents occur on Sundays approximately five times each year (which equates to about 1 out of every 73 nights). Senior residents are also called in to manage active labor for their continuity maternity patients. The goal of this system is to provide robust hospital learning opportunities while also maintaining a focus on resident well-being by minimizing the number of 24-hour shifts.

As a first-year resident, you have a few (approximately 16 the whole year) overnight call experiences when on key specialty rotations, which equates to about 1 out of every 23 nights.

Yes. With Mayo Clinic Health System being such an integral part of the community, we have extensive connections in a variety of areas (not just medicine) in and around Eau Claire, and we would be happy to help your significant other find a niche in the region.

Absolutely! We actively seek input from residents all the time through monthly resident and faculty meetings, meetings between residents and their advisers, regular meetings between residents and the program director, and the annual program evaluation. We cannot run a great program without meeting your needs and hearing your voice clearly and often.

Yes! We love working with students and offer rotations with our inpatient family medicine teaching service and the family medicine residency clinic. There are two options to request a rotation with us here in the Family Medicine Residency at Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

1. Current medical students can apply for 4th year clerkship rotations directly via the AAMC Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) portal. Check out the Mayo Clinic's Visiting Medical Student Clerkship website (https://college.mayo.edu/academics/visiting-medical-student-clerkships) for admissions and application information, including information on Diversity Scholarships (https://college.mayo.edu/academics/visiting-medical-student-clerkships/scholarships).

2. Students can also request a rotation with us through this Clinical Experience Request Form (https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b4e0e4f9cd8345b4a462ab7abbed04ac). We encourage you to reach out via this form to request a rotation if you do not qualify for the VLSO clerkship as outlined above.

Note: While filling out this online form, under "PREFERRED MAYO CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM LOCATION", mark "Northwest Wisconsin", then "Eau Claire", then "Family Medicine Residency".