Clinical training

Osteopathic Recognition Program

The Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has obtained Osteopathic Recognition through the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Interested and qualified residents who participate in the Osteopathic Recognition (OR) program receive more thorough and continuous training in Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP), including Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT), beyond the basic concepts of osteopathic philosophy, assessments, and manipulative techniques that are taught to all residents in the Family Medicine Residency.

Electives

Your elective options are nearly unlimited. Each rotation lasts from two to four weeks, depending on the elective. You may also choose to take an elective rotation at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Minnesota, Arizona, or Florida. Mayo covers the costs of your travel, housing, auto rental, and licensure.

Call frequency

We designed our curriculum to optimize work and personal life integration while providing you with rich learning experiences. We are intentional about creating highly valuable on-call experiences that mimic models of what you might see in practice when you graduate.

First-year residents have a few valuable overnight call experiences to optimize their learning while on labor and delivery, in the emergency department, and with the hospitalists. These are designed as learning experiences for you, and they are not in place because you are needed to "cover" a particular service.

As you advance in the program, your call responsibility grows along with your skills and confidence. For nighttime hospital coverage, we utilize a night-float system. Second- and third-year residents take turns covering the nighttime hospital admitting and labor service on average five weeks each per year. Residents have minimal daytime responsibilities during those weeks

Moonlighting

Moonlighting is permitted for licensed residents beyond the PGY-1 level. Moonlighting opportunities should not interfere with required learning and must not violate Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty-hour rules.

Conferences

Case-based learning, seminars, small group discussions, journal clubs, board review, and skills workshops are integral parts of the Family Medicine Residency.

Our educational sessions are designed to facilitate the growth of your medical knowledge and practice skills throughout all three years of your training. We regularly rotate the types and styles of learning sessions throughout the week to provide a broader experience.

One afternoon each month, we also offer ongoing behavioral health curriculum and hands-on skill development during "Wednesday Workshops." During this time, residents participate in a Balint group and review behavioral health topics that enhance their clinical practice. You learn and practice counseling and procedural skills, and explore medical humanities and popular culture medicine connections with our Pop-Med curriculum.

Practice board examinations

Each fall, residents take the American Board of Family Medicine's In-Training Examination. Scores for this exam can be predictive of your success on your official family medicine boards, so we use this practice exam to help guide your individualized learning goals.

Scholarly activities

Family medicine is on the front lines of delivering care to meet the daily needs of patients. We prepare you to be an innovator in health care delivery through extensive training in:

• Process and quality improvement
• Evidence-based medicine
• Information mastery
• Leadership and professional development

We also offer opportunities to explore your own research interests and have at our fingertips a wealth of Mayo Clinic support and expertise to assist with your research interests.

Advisers and mentors

We match you with a family medicine faculty adviser to help you navigate residency training while keeping your goals in mind. You meet regularly with your adviser throughout all three years of training to ensure you are getting the experiences and mentoring you need to be successful. These mentors are also a great resource to help connect you to the Eau Claire community.