M.D. Other educational programs in our Department include the Occupational Medicine Residency, the Physician's Assistant Program, and a Masters in Public Health Program. The Department's Health Research Center provides expertise and research support and is available to the Family Practice Residency Program. Since 1972 over 200 residents have graduated from the University of Utah Family Practice Residency in Salt Lake City. Residents have come from medical schools across the country and pursued all types of family practice following residency. Our graduates are in practice settings from rural to urban sites, solo and group practices, in all regions of the country, and in academic settings.
Many graduates perform obstetrics and include surgical procedures in their practices.
This diversity of practices among our graduates is evidence of the flexibility we strive to maintain in our program. The residents share an important role in evaluating and improving the program through participation in monthly business meetings, resident selection committee, and other working committees within the department. The residency is seeking applicants who are interested in obstetrics and who desire to practice in rural communities. A rural community medicine rotation is part of the curriculum for all of the residents in the program.