Family Medicine

The Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency is sponsored jointly by Avera McKennan and Sanford Health Hospitals (combined bed capacity nearly 900), and is affiliated with the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. The Residency is fully accredited and accepts eight residents per year.

Sioux Falls offers the most advanced and complete healthcare facilities in the area. The city has become a referral center for all of South Dakota, as well as northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota. The Program's sponsoring hospitals offer state of the art technology unsurpassed in the Midwest. Both hospitals are constantly expanding and updating facilities and services.

Both hospitals have advanced, 24 hour emergency/trauma departments and have helicopters to augment other ground and air transportation services. The hospitals also provide low cost obstetric clinics, offering medical care for expectant mothers. Residents are assigned patients and act as the primary physicians (with staff physician supervision), beginning with the first prenatal visit through delivery and the postnatal visit. Avera McKennan and Sanford Health hospitals have received national recognition for the services they offer.

Both Avera McKennan and Sanford Health hospitals sponsor a transitional residency with six residents per year.