In the St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, you'll join us in providing quality, patient-centered health care.

St. John's is a family-friendly community hospital with a family medicine base of admitting physicians. Working with the hospital teaching service, other family physicians and a variety of specialists, you'll have access to a wide range of patient and case experiences, and the opportunity to learn the latest techniques and technology from some of the best physicians in the field.

St. John's provides expert cutting edge care with a well-trained and friendly clinical care team addressing all aspects of patient care with the current diagnostic and treatment options available in most community hospitals. St. John's has an active emergency room and very busy maternal care suite.

Our work culture and lifestyle foster low staff turnover and high resident and physician satisfaction. With no other residency programs based at St. John's hospital, our entire focus is on the family medicine residency program.

Find out more about St. John’s Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program on the University of Minnesota web site.

Why St. John's?

• We have been providing compassionate care to our community for nearly 100 years.
• Our Judeo-Christian roots ensure full-spectrum care that respects the dignity of each person and welcomes all faith traditions, cultures and communities.
• Our spirit of innovation resulted in the development of the progressive patient care model. We also had the first express admit unit in the Twin Cities.
• St. John's Hospital has been named a "Top 100" hospital by Modern Healthcare and one of the Top 100 Hospitals in the U.S. by Thomson Reuters.

A broad range of experiences

We offer many exciting rotations for residents, including inpatient pediatrics and pediatric emergency rotations at Children's Hospital, training at Hazelden drug rehabilitation center, and sports medicine sideline experience at the Twin Cities Marathon, MSHSL State Tournaments, USA Soccer Cup, Johnson High School and other events.

International and Global Health rotations have been popular, and we have multiple faculty members who have experience setting up experiences in international settings. We actively encourage residents to develop electives that focus on a particular area of interest.

Early in their training, residents gain important insight into ICU care through our Fundamentals for Critical Care Support course, and our residents work closely with the intensivists during call.  Residents also receive Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics training in their third month of residency, to ensure  understanding of the complexities specific to labor and delivery.

Our call is full spectrum, ensuring exposure to all aspects of family medicine throughout all three years of residency.  Obstetric experience is longitudinal both in clinic and the hospital.  When possible, residents deliver their own continuity patients.

Supportive collaborative environment

From administration to the medical staff, St. John’s is a supportive and collaborative learning environment. Everyone is available to teach, support, listen and lend a hand to our residents.  The residency program has full time faculty dedicated to the residency inpatient service.

Work/life balance

St. John's values the balance of personal and professional life. We offer social and personal support, including:

• No night float, and residents not on call are completely off duty after hours
• Family-focused opportunities, such as the parental elective, allowing new parents to focus on a home-based, parental research project
• Research opportunities
• Flexibility to allow residents to explore areas of interest
• Residents choose their own vacations

After residency

Our family medicine residents have taken their experience at St. John's  to a variety of professional settings, including:

• Private practice
• Hospitals
• Administration
• Medical education