“Great patient volume and variety.”
“High quality conferences.”
“Beautiful and comfortable new facility.”
“Humane and balanced schedule.”
“Community faculty are great! Supportive, respectful, collegial.”
“Unique third year model that prepares you for practice after residency.”

• 4 blocks in the first year and 2 blocks in a supervisory role in the second year 
• Work as a team with teaching hospitalists and medical students 
• Work in the Collaborative Care model, which is a multidisciplinary team-based rounding system with a nurse, pharmacist, care manager and physicians 
• Additional continuity experience with resident’s own patients who are hospitalized throughout the 3 years of residency
  • Residents manage their own Mosaic Family Health patients and those patients whose PCP is unavailable with one-on-one supervision by program faculty, providing a longitudinal inpatient medicine experience. This helps transition from in-house hospital care to caring for hospitalized patients similar to full-scope Family Physicians in the community by daily rounding and phone management when appropriate.
  • Third year residents provide nighttime and weekend coverage of these Mosaic Family Health patients.

• 2 blocks in the first year and 4 blocks in the second year working with obstetrics and pediatrics; half of the second year experience includes supervising interns and running the OB floor 
• Work in a high-volume labor and delivery unit (125-150 deliveries per resident) 
• Learn pre-term labor management, labor induction and augmentation, diagnosis and management of third trimester emergencies and complications, and cesarean section assistance 
• Night float system in place 
• NICU on site

• State-of-the-art outpatient care including prevention, management of chronic illnesses, and skillful response to acute illness with the goal to minimize hospitalization 
• Inpatient experiences include:
  • Care of infants and newborns in the newborn nursery, as well as the NICU at Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital over two blocks in second year. Residents participate in neonatal resuscitations with a team of NICU nurses and attendings. Participate in a high-volume circumcision experience 
  • Care of children hospitalized at Children’s Wisconsin – Fox Valley Hospital, located in nearby Neenah, WI during one block in each first and second years. Work with outstanding, collegial pediatrician hospitalists and pediatric specialists 
  • Medicine consultations for adolescents hospitalized in the behavioral health unit at Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital longitudinally during third year. 

• A well-developed, integrated office and hospital curriculum with enthusiastic role model faculty 
• Clinic population includes a diverse mix of healthy elderly and those with chronic disease 
• The long-term care geriatrics rotation occurs in a state-of-the-art nursing home where residents gain skills in geriatric and internal medicine, palliative care, and rehabilitative care 

• Interwoven into a rotational and longitudinal curriculum, which enhance and integrate learning 
• School system involvement includes teaching human growth and development classes and running smoking-cessation courses 
• Opportunities to counsel patients and utilize critical community resources such as AIDS resource centers, sexual assault crisis centers, domestic violence emergency centers, and rehabilitation programs 
• Behavioral medicine experiences include counseling techniques, substance and alcohol abuse resources 

• Senior residents work with faculty to develop, design, implement and evaluate a clinical quality improvement (QI) curriculum and project 
• Learn how to run a practice through experience in our teaching health center, community physicians’ practices, and didactics/workshops that run throughout the three year curriculum

• Weekly outpatient procedure clinic focusing on common outpatient procedures for third -year residents. Additional procedure experience within residents’ own continuity clinics. Procedures include:
  • Gynecologic: colposcopy, IUD insertion, nexplanon insertion/removal, endometrial biopsy, endocervical curettage, transvaginal obstetric dating ultrasound, obstetric laceration repair
  • Skin/Nail: biopsies (punch, excisional, shave), cryotherapy, lipoma and sebaceous cyst removal, laceration repair, toenail removal
  • Musculoskeletal: casting, splinting, joint aspiration and injection, Osteopathic Manipulation Therapy 
  • Urologic: newborn circumcision, vasectomy 
• Numerous hands on procedure workshops
• Opportunity for 1 or 2 residents per year to learn colonoscopies with sufficient volume to be credentialed by hospital systems
• High graduate satisfaction with skills in variety of inpatient and outpatient procedures 
• Some of the highest volume of procedures of any Family Medicine residency in the state of Wisconsin

• Learn diagnosis, management and referral patterns for common conditions on rotations with dedicated community attendings from Surgery, Gynecology, Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Cardiology, Dermatology, ENT, Urology, Palliative Care, and Ophthalmology. 
• Enhance knowledge and comfort in caring for hospitalized patients with a one month immersive experience in Critical Care Medicine, with ample direct patient care, transfer evaluations, admissions and opportunities for procedures. 
• Gain a foundation in managing unstable and undifferentiated patients in 2 blocks of Emergency Medicine training. Recognition of patients that require admission and advanced medical care is an essential skill for all Family Medicine physicians. These rotations are rich in clinical experience and opportunities for autonomy and independent decision making while still being supervised.
• Ambulatory Family Medicine throughout training.
  • Throughout all years, residents spend time at Mosaic Family Health, seeing their own continuity patients, gaining confidence in their abilities, becoming more comfortable as a Family Physician and learning about critical community resources and how to mobilize these resources for their patients.
  • Third year residents spend a block with a community Family Physician in their office. While continuing to see their own patients at Mosaic Family Health, the resident also spends time seeing patients in the ambulatory setting in a different practice,  evaluating their model of care, getting ideas for their own practice, including refining their approach to patients and working on clinical efficiency. 
• Rural health opportunities include working with family physicians, surgeons, gynecologists and EM attendings in a variety of smaller communities less than 60 minutes from our clinic.

• Rural Continuity Practice Opportunities are available in second and third years.

• Continuity experience in allopathic and osteopathic medicine with our ACGME Ostepathic Recognized Program.
• Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment rooms and regularly scheduled OMT referral clinics 
• Osteopathic manipulation throughout the 3 year curriculum at Mosaic Family Health with the resident’s panel of patients. 
• Statewide osteopathic conferences focusing on OMT techniques and skills

As a resident in our program you will move from a very well supervised setting in the early part of your first year of residency to progressively greater autonomy and higher levels of responsibility.

The first two years include traditional in-house call (medicine and obstetric) where you will grow in your knowledge and decision making abilities while being able to lay eyes on sick patients and receive help on-site from community attendings, hospitalists and program faculty.

Your third year of residency has been intentionally designed to mimic a group practice model with your colleagues. You will help care for our Mosaic Family Health patients by taking call from home that closely resembles real life full-scope call. You will field phone calls from patients and nursing calling our clinic answering service for advice; evaluate and admit medicine and obstetric patients after hours; and manage hospitalized patients from locations outside of the hospital with supervision from our faculty.

This is a big transition that most traditional residencies have their graduates learn after residency is completed. By incorporating this model within your residency training, graduates have felt increased levels of preparedness for practice upon graduation. This will also emphasize that full-scope practice can be manageable and provides higher job satisfaction. 

Family medicine training is both challenging and deeply rewarding. We believe that becoming an exceptional physician requires not only outstanding clinical experiences, but also a supportive environment that prioritizes your personal well-being. Our program is intentionally designed to help residents thrive—professionally, personally, and emotionally—through meaningful mentorship, wellness initiatives, and a strong sense of community.

A balanced call schedule is a cornerstone of resident wellness, complemented by the following resources and opportunities:

• Comprehensive Program Orientation – Start residency with confidence through a welcoming orientation that includes Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) certification, introductions to our clinic, faculty, and fellow residents, as well as social events to help you feel at home.
• Annual Resident Retreat – Each year, residents plan and enjoy an off-site weekend retreat focused on relaxation, team building, and personal growth. Families and significant others are welcome to join, while faculty physicians cover clinical responsibilities so residents can fully disconnect and recharge.
• Balint Group – Medicine is about more than diagnoses and treatments. Our regularly scheduled Balint groups, facilitated by an external counselor and trained Balint group leader, provide a confidential space for residents to reflect on challenging patient encounters, build resilience, and strengthen the human side of medicine.
• Resident Forum – Led by the chief residents, these recurring faculty-free meetings create a safe environment for honest conversations, collaborative problem-solving, and resident advocacy. It’s an important avenue for ensuring every resident’s voice is heard.
• Protected Wednesday Afternoon Didactics – Residents have dedicated educational time each week to learn from faculty and guest speakers through lectures, workshops, and seminars covering the full spectrum of family medicine, including clinical care, behavioral health, procedures, practice management, and more.
• Food Availability – Residents have access to food with use of meal credits when on rotation at either hospital. 
• Time Away – Residents have flexibility in scheduling PTO and have the ability to attend personal appointments. 
• Personalized Mentorship – Regular advisor-advisee meetings and connections with a community family physician foster meaningful mentorship, individualized guidance, and ongoing support throughout your residency journey.

The Fox Valley Residency Program coordinates and hosts a weekly didactic conferences series for residents, scheduled each Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday conference begins at 12:30 PM. All residents attend with the exception of those covering hospital services or having excused absences. Conference schedules are determined by a team of residents and faculty to tailor the topics to those needed and desired by our resident physicians.

A variety of sessions are scheduled each Wednesday afternoon, including core medicine topics, humanities, ethics, practice management, resident forum, town hall, grand rounds, journal club, procedure workshops, and Balint group, among others.