The NCFM Residency is actually made up of five distinct programs, each with its own Match ID. Please see below for information about each program. Residents in all five programs can select an area of additional focus based on their particular interests and career goals. Learn more about our optional training tracks.
Core Program residents do their rotations at North Colorado Medical Center and have their Family Medicine Clinic at North Colorado Family Medicine Clinic. Residents in the Core Program receive broad-spectrum training that is conducive to a future practice in any setting. This training is especially beneficial for residents considering a future in rural and international medicine.
Patient Population
The patient population at North Colorado Family Medicine is primarily underinsured, uninsured, Medicare and Medicaid patients. There is a large Latino population including both Spanish-speaking only and English-speaking patients. While an in-house Spanish translator is readily available, this patient population allows bilingual residents to use their Spanish skills.
Rotations
North Colorado Family Medicine offers medical student rotations, and we encourage students considering a career in family medicine and those considering applying to North Colorado Family Medicine to consider doing a rotation with us. For inquiries into arranging a fourth-year medical student rotation, review the medical student rotations and/or contact North Colorado Family Medicine at (970) 810-2800.
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Academically, the Hospitalist Program resident completes all of the American Board of Family Medicine hospital related Knowledge Self-assessments and 2 of the Performance Improvement modules. They also complete the North Colorado Family Medicine EKG reading course. When the resident is on the hospitalist service, they attend the daily North Colorado Family Medicine inpatient medicine didactic, and deliver one of these didactics weekly. Currently, the Hospitalist Program is limited to one position per PGY year.
If you have any questions, please contact the program office (970) 810-2800.
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Resident physicians in the Sterling Rural Training Program spend their first year training with the Core Program in Greeley, Colorado. Their continuity clinic occurs at North Colorado Family Medicine. Resident physicians then move to Sterling, Colorado for the remainder of their training. Resident physicians are provided with an extra stipend on top of their salary and benefits after moving to Sterling. Currently, the Sterling Program is limited to two positions per PGY year.
The curriculum while in Sterling is arranged in a longitudinal fashion on a weekly/monthly basis. Resident physicians will do a rotation of 4 recurring weeks—one week of inpatient Medicine, one week of Obstetrics, one week of Outpatient Clinic, and one week “Swing” (a combination of clinic, elective/specialty time, emergency room time, and overnight call). Electives and time with other specialists, both local and visiting, is intermixed and arranged on a longitudinal basis. One day per month, residents will spend a designated 12hr shift in the emergency department working with the ED physician. Resident physicians take overnight, in-house call twice per month.
This longitudinal approach leads to a tremendous experience in both rural continuity clinic and rural emergency department coverage while still meeting all ACGME requirements for training in other disciplines.
While training in Sterling, residents participate with their classmates in Greeley for Wednesday afternoon didactics, alternating between traveling back to Greeley once per month for this activity and, at other times, participating via live streaming video.
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Rotations
We offer medical student rotations in Sterling, and we encourage students considering a career in rural family medicine and those interested in applying to our Sterling Rural Training Program to consider rotating with us. For inquiries into arranging a fourth-year medical student rotation, review the medical student rotations and/or contact North Colorado Family Medicine at (970) 810-2800.
About Sterling Regional MedCenter
Sterling Regional MedCenter has provided medical care to residents of northeastern Colorado and the surrounding area since 1938.
The 25-bed acute-care hospital offers a full range of health care services and a staff dedicated to providing patients with comprehensive, quality care close to home.
The hospital offers cutting-edge technology such as Banner Telehealth, a remote monitoring system and an intelligent OB program, a computerized system designed to reduce the chance of complications during labor.
Resident physicians in the Wray Rural Training Program spend their first 15 months training with the Core Program in Greeley, Colorado. Their continuity clinic occurs at North Colorado Family Medicine. In September of their second year of training, the resident physician moves to Wray, Colorado for the remainder of their residency training. Resident physicians are provided with an extra stipend on top of their salary and benefits after moving to Wray. Currently, the Wray Program is limited to one position per PGY year.
The curriculum in Wray is longitudinal and allows the residents to train and practice as a true rural family physicians doing a little bit of everything each day. Workdays begin with inpatient rounds and a morning report of the interesting cases from the emergency department during the night. After teaching rounds, residents then go to the Family Medicine clinic to see continuity patients. Wray residents also work with local and visiting specialists to gain valuable specialty training experience.
Second-year resident physicians cover the emergency department for nine 24-hour shifts per month (from home at night) and third year resident physicians do seven 24-hour shifts per month (from home at night). This longitudinal approach leads to a tremendous experience in both rural continuity clinic and rural emergency department coverage while still meeting all ACGME requirements for training in other disciplines.
While training in Wray, residents participate with their classmates back in Greeley for Wednesday afternoon didactics, alternating between traveling back to Greeley once per month for this activity and, at other times, participating via live streaming video. Graduates of the Wray Rural Training Track typically perform about 80 C-sections, 180 total deliveries, 200 colonoscopies, 100 EGD’s as well as exercise cardiac stress tests, OB ultrasound, a high volume of fracture management, tubal ligations, colposcopy, electrical cardioversion, thrombolytics for acute myocardial infarction and stroke, among many other procedures.
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Rotations
We offer medical student rotations in Wray, and we encourage students considering a career in rural family medicine and those interested in applying to our Wray Rural Training Program to consider rotating with us. For inquiries into arranging a fourth-year medical student rotation, review the medical student rotations and/or contact North Colorado Family Medicine at (970) 810-2800.
About the Hospital and Clinic
The Wray Community District Hospital opened in 1995 and is a 15-bed critical access hospital with Level IV trauma services. It is a model rural hospital with 2 operating rooms, a 2-bay emergency room, radiology including CT scanner and mammography, cardiac rehabilitation center and other ancillary services. It also serves as the site for frequent specialty clinics.
The Wray Clinic is a 10,000 square-foot clinic connected to the hospital that opened in 2003. It contains 16 exam rooms, 2 procedure rooms and a lab. It also serves as the site for frequent specialty clinics including audiology, cardiology, dermatology, ear, nose and throat, gynecology, hematology/oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, podiatry, pulmonology and urology.
Sunrise Community Health Center Program residents spend their family medicine outpatient clinic time (continuity experience) at Sunrise Monfort Family Clinic, rather than at the main residency family medicine clinic.
The curriculum for the Sunrise Community Health Center Program resident is otherwise identical to the Core Program residents, with the same inpatient and specialty rotations, conferences, meetings and shared-call schedule. The Sunrise Community Health Center Program accepts 2 residents every year.
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A Community Health Center Setting
The environment at Sunrise Community Health Center is particularly well suited for the physician who plans to practice in a community health center setting and provides a unique opportunity to serve people of Latino, Somali and Burmese language and culture. It is not a requirement that the Sunrise Community Health Center Program resident be bilingual, however it is helpful. Residents have their own patient panels and are precepted by Sunrise Community Health Center physicians. A library is provided at Sunrise Community Health Center. There are also regular visits by behavioral science faculty from the core program.
Sunrise Community Health Center Facts
If you have any questions, please contact our program office at (970) 810-2800.
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