Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency

Appleton - A Great Place to Train!

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The goal of residency is to prepare you for practice as an independent physician. Through interactions and patient encounters at Mosaic Family Health, our clinical home, Ascension – WI and ThedaCare, our co-sponsors, the Medical College of Wisconsin, our academic affiliate, Wisconsin Northern and Central (WiNC) GME consortium, our sponsoring institution, and various community partnerships, graduates of our program are well trained for all health care settings – rural, international, underserved, urban and suburban.

The greatest strength of any organization is the collection of people in it. We have outstanding faculty, residents, community physicians, staff and patients who are all invested in training future family physicians. This family-like support network and our full-scope curriculum help our residents grow specifically into the doctor he or she wants to be and prepares them to practice:

Ambulatory Care
Behavioral Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Maternity/Obstetric care
Nursing Home Care
Procedural Medicine

Training Full-Scope Family Physicians

In 2026, we achieved our 46th academic year, graduated our 43rd class of residents and our 264th resident. Of these 264 graduates, 182 (69%) practice in the state of Wisconsin, 130 (49%) in northeast Wisconsin and of that 130, 77 (59%) in the Fox Cities area.

See where our graduates are practicing:

“Appleton is such a unique community. I think everyone is always surprised at how much there is to do here and how many opportunities there are! You can easily go to the city (Milwaukee or Chicago) or to the country (Door County, the Upper Peninsula) with just a couple hours drive. We quickly found a community here outside of the residency and are still discovering hidden gems like parks and community offerings we didn’t even know about before! If you are not a big city person but also don’t want to be in the middle of nowhere Appleton is the perfect place for you. We have also found that it is very easy to get reasonable flights out of the local airport or even Green Bay or Milwaukee to make travel very convenient.”

– Martha Grace Courtright, MD, Class of 2021