Resident Tracks

Over the past year we have worked to develop several different tracks that residents can choose to pursue if they have interest in. Residents are not limited to a single track. Additionally, there is a full curriculum that describes that requirements necessary to complete each track. Below are listed some short summaries that describe each track:

Lifestyle Medicine Track (Advisor - Dr. Dance) 

  • Complete full curriculum for lifestyle medicine with portions embedded in regular residency didactics

  • Become competent in counseling on the 6 Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine:  Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep, Healthy Relationships, Stress Management, and Avoidance of Risky Substances

  • Apply lifestyle medicine principles through specified application activities, patient encounters, group visits, and module completion  

  • Residents who complete the track will be eligible to sit for the Lifestyle Medicine Boards after residency graduation 

Addiction Medicine Track  (Advisor - Dr. Dance)

  • Learn treatment modalities to treat stimulant addiction, opioid addiction, alcohol addiction, tobacco addiction

  • Complete addiction specific elective rotation(s) which may include mobile addiction clinic in Moab or rotations with clinical partners such as Naloxone Utah or Odyssey House

  • Opportunities to apply addiction medicine may include inpatient medicine, maternal/neonatal addiction clinic, teen BRIDGE program, and outpatient clinic   

  • Residents who complete the track will be competent in personal practice in addiction medicine or excellent candidates to continue education with an Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Teaching Track  (Advisor - Dr. Dance) 

  • Develop skills in inpatient teaching, clinic-based teaching, procedural teaching, lecture-based teaching, physical exam and communication skills teaching, and on providing effective feedback

  • Track participants would be given additional teaching opportunities in interactions with 3rd and 4th year medical students, residents in the family medicine program, and residents in affiliated residency programs

  • Residents will graduate from HCA's Physician Educator program and are encouraged to participate in Resident as Teacher and other programs sponsored by the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)

  • Residents who complete the track will graduate with improved teaching skills and would be prepared to be excellent community teachers or academic faculty candidates at graduation

Global Health Track (Advisor - Dr. Kirby) 

  •  Develop the ability to confidently treat newcomers from around the world

  • Provide initial screening and ongoing continuity care for refugees from within our diverse clinic population

  • Learn from state experts in refugee healthcare within our own faculty and beyond

  • Augment your continuity learning with an international elective

  • Focus scholarly activity, CME learning, and your population health rotation on global health

Mother-Baby Track (Advisor - Dr. Boulos) 

  • Gain the skills to be a low risk obstetrics provider or apply to OB fellowship

  • Provide in-depth care to families throughout pregnancy and afterwards

  • Develop relationships with the family medicine-obstetrics community of Salt Lake City

  • Augment your learning with focused scholarly activities, CME learning, and electives