A four-week orientation allows new residents to familiarize themselves with one another, their faculty and staff, their professional settings and systems, and the range of available community resources. At this time, residents begin seeing outpatients and inpatients, and they start emergency department and call schedules.
Residents see their own patients two half-days per week in the outpatient family practice clinic.
During rotations in neighboring rural communities, residents are responsible for a high patient volume in a setting away from broad multispecialty resources. The program provides convenient housing for residents and their families while away from Wausau. The third year emphasizes outpatient care. Residents spend five half-days per week seeing patients in the clinic, and they attend outpatient rotations in pediatrics, dermatology and subspecialty clinics. Those who want more experience in high-risk deliveries may choose an advanced obstetrics elective.