Program Overview

St. Mark’s Family Medicine Residency was born in 1994 out of family medicine residents’ desire to change the traditional family medicine residency curriculum to better serve the learners and the patients. 

Clinic Every Day™

Our fully ACGME-accredited program is unique in that residents have their own Clinic Every Day. This allows patients to see their own doctor 90% of the time, compared to the 50% continuity most residency programs have. This model allows residents to treat a breadth of common primary care problems, connect with their patients and families, and learn to manage an increasing patient load efficiently. Each resident gets their own desk in our beautiful resident room with 180 degree mountain views. Our residents are highly skilled clinicians who find it easy to transition into a variety of practices and fellowships after residency. 

Independent Learning

Along with our Clinic Every Day, we also value an adult learning model, which means we are motivated, curious self-starters who are excited to learn and mature. Residents have 9 months of elective time to tailor their education to their interests and future career goals. Our faculty, alongside the St. Mark’s Hospital faculty and physicians in our community, create a thriving learning environment for our residents—preparing them for first jobs, fellowships, and more. Even during required rotations, residents can choose the faculty members they work with in order to gain what they need most from their rotation time.. 

Our adult learning philosophy also means we have balanced autonomy and supervision. Our residents learn to manage hospital and clinic concerns independently with faculty, intensivists, and obstetrical hospitalist on-hand to facilitate patient care concerns and resident learning. Combined with a predictable and flexible call schedule, our curriculum allows residents time to train abroad, support local sports teams, attend conferences, and moonlight.

Noon Conference Didactics

Every afternoon during the noon hour, our residents and faculty come together for a noon didactic hour. This dedicated time allows for uninterrupted learning from one another, faculty, and specialists. It also provides space for us to bond with our co-residents and catch up on the day. Each resident is also required to present several times each year. Residents are in charge of scheduling the lectures, so we get the lectures we want.

Unopposed & Community-based

Training at a community hospital differs from an academic medical center. At St. Mark's Hospital, our residents are the only residents, i.e., no competition from other programs or residency specialties. Our residents are the primary learners on the team on all of the rotations at St. Mark's Hospital, allowing for one-on-one training with specialty providers. St. Mark's Hospital has 325 beds and has won multiple national awards for its high-quality cardiology and orthopedic departments. Despite being a community program, we get the opportunity to train at the elite Primary Children’s Hospital, inpatient pediatrics during R1 and emergency pediatrics during R2.

Ski Clinic

During R2 year, residents get to spend 1 month rotating at the Intermountain Park City Canyons Village Ski Clinic. This high-volume sports medicine clinic provides hands-on experience, strengthening your MSK exam, splinting, reductions, and suturing skills. All while being mountainside at one of the state’s most elite ski resorts. This is one of our resident’s favorite rotations!

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Location, Location, Location

Location is one of the main factors applicants use in selecting their future residency program. Few places on earth combine cosmopolitan advantages with unspoiled natural beauty quite the way Utah does. Salt Lake City is the gateway to ten national parks, including Yellowstone, Bryce, Arches, and Zion, six national monuments, and nine national forests - all within a day’s drive. The seven canyons surrounding Salt Lake City receive 450 inches of snow annually, creating unsurpassed skiing. No wonder Salt Lake City was selected as the site for the 2002 and upcoming 2034 Winter Olympics.

Residency

• Community-based, unopposed residency owned by Utah Heatlhcare Institute, a non-profit foundation composed of our faculty to further resident education

• Full ACGME-accreditation

• Enjoy a predictable call schedule, with most Sundays off

• Competitive salary and benefit package

• 100% of our graduates are Board Certified

• ABFP In-Training Exam: scored higher than 72% of the FM residency programs nationally

• Excellent fellowship match rate, including sports medicine, obstetrics, geriatrics, hospice and palliative care, addiction and sleep medicine

• Low resident-to-faculty ratio

• Faculty have special interests in international and refugee medicine, sports medicine, addiction medicine, lifestyle medicine, women's health, geriatrics and hospice care, and more

• Continuity of geriatric patients, following 5-6 patients throughout R2-R3 at Draper Rehabilitation and Care Center

• Opportunity for Home Visits

Clinic

• Residents are in their own primary-care clinic every weekday

• Level III Patient-Centered Medical Home

• Belongs to an accountable care organization (ACO)

• 15,000 patient visits/year

• Recently expanded and renovated clinic space

• Competent staff with dedication transition of care nurses and care coordinators

• In-house LMFT for patient care

• Clinic EMR: Athena

Average # of clinic patients seen in the year:
R1 315
R2 630
R3 1126

Hospital

• St. Mark's Hospital is 325-bed community hospital

• Level II Trauma Center

• 34-bed ICU

• While the hospital originated as an Episcopalian institution it no longer has any religious affiliation

• Recently renovated women’s pavilion with over 1,900 deliveries annually,

• Obstetrical hospitalists in-house 24 hours a day

• Behavioral Health Unit and Acute Rehab Facility on campus

• Superb social work, case management, and spiritual care support

• EMR: Epic

Nuts and Bolts

• Competitive Salary

• Comprehensive benefits package for residents and their families, including paid vacation (with flexible scheduling), medical, dental, life, pet insurance, fully paid malpractice insurance, retirement plan, sick leave, and maternity/paternity leave

• 2 weeks of orientation for incoming R1s

• BLS, ACLS, NRP, PALS, ALSO courses paid for

• Up-to-Date subscription renewed annually

• CME time and funding as R2 and R3

• 21 work days of paid time off annually

• 1-day clinic retreat annually

• Annual faculty-resident retreat

• 24-hour overnight shifts during 3 months of Family Medicine service as R2-R3

• From-home call averages q 8 weekdays and q 8 weekends

Non-Discrimination

The Utah HealthCare Institute and St. Mark's Family Medicine Residency will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation including gender identity, unfavorable discharge from the military or status as a protected veteran and will comply with all federal and state non-discrimination, equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, orders and regulations. This non-discrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, access to and treatment in the clinic facilities and activities.