Interviews are scheduled between November 1st and January 31. Our interviews include personal time with the program director and includes a brief time on inpatient rounds with our family medicine service, tour with a resident, and lunch with another resident or two. We plan your interview day so that you will have an opportunity to meet with different levels of residents, and have time to have questions answered about their satisfaction with the program. The day usually begins around 9:00 a.m. and is done by approximately 2:30 p.m. A hotel room is provided the night before the interview and evening interactions with residents will be arranged if the applicant’s schedule permits.

Family Medicine Residency Program

I. First Year Residents
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS

• 12 weeks CFM Inpatient Team (CFMIT)
• 4 weeks general Internal Medicine
• 8 weeks Pediatrics
• 4 weeks Emergency Medicine
• 4 weeks Surgery
• 8 weeks Obstetrics
• 4 weeks Critical Care
• 4 weeks Nutrition/Lab Medicine
• 4 weeks Cardiology
  

II. Second Year Residents
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS

• 4 week general Internal Medicine (can do CFMIT)
• 4 weeks CFMIT
• 4 weeks Subspecialty Pediatrics (include NICU)
• 4 weeks Obstetrics
• 4 weeks Gynecology
• 14 weeks combined Community Medicine/Behavioral Science/Practice
• Management
• 4 weeks Pulmonary
• 4 weeks Ambulatory Pediatrics

Other requirements in either the 2nd or 3rd year

• 4 weeks Rural Family Medicine (must be taken before the last 6 months of 3rd year)
• 4 weeks Emergency Medicine
• 8 weeks Orthopedics (can be sports medicine, rheumatology)
• 4 weeks Geriatrics
• 4 weeks Dermatology
• 4 weeks Neurology
• 16 weeks of electives
  

III. Third Year Residents
CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS

• 6 weeks CFMIT as supervising resident
• 4 weeks Subspecialty Surgery (include ENT, Urology, Ophthalmology)
• 4 weeks General Surgery

US Medical/Osteopathic Graduate Criteria:

• MSPE
• Transcript
• Personal Statement
• Curriculum Vitae
• USMLE or COMLEX transcript*
• Two letters of recommendation
• You must be able to be licensed in SD, which requires passage of each component of the USMLE in three attempts or less, and in a seven year time span, from first attept of USMLE through successful completion of Part 3.
• FREIDA
• SD State Board of Medical & Osteopathic Examiners

International Medical Graduate Criteria:

The minimum criteria for foreign medical graduates that must be met to be considered for interviews in our program:

• All criteria as stated above for US medical/osteopathic graduates
• USMLE scores must be 80 or higher on parts 1, and 2, and the interval from passing Part 1 to Part 3 must not be greater than 7 years.
• You must be ECFMG certified.
• You must have lived in the US for at least two years.
• You have permanent residency or citizenship (the only visa we sponsor is J-1), and you must address any visa/citizenship issues. We do not have staff to do this for you.
• Time interval since completion of formal training (medical school or residency) must be less than 3 years.
• Time interval since most recent clinical experience (educational or practice) must be less than two years.
• You must demonstrate excellent and understandable written and spoken English language communication skills.
• All applications are accepted through ERAS and the NRMP.