Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program

Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program

Welcome to Humboldt County, California

​Located 270 miles north of San Francisco on the scenic coast of California, the Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka Family Medicine Program is dedicated to preparing well trained family physicians to provide high quality affordable health care in rural communities. We are the regional medical center for a 3-county area the size of Vermont or New Hampshire, but with a population of only 175,000. See if our program is what you are looking for to train you to be the family physician you hope to become.

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Learn More About the Program

The Providence St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency is a sponsored by Providence St. Joseph Hospital in collaboration with Open Door Community Health Centers (FQHC). Additionally, the program incorporates speciality faculty from the Providence Medical Group, Humboldt and other community physicians for affiliate faculty in a wide variety of specialties. The program is strongly supported by the entire medical community as well as the community at large.

We Are Unopposed

Training Family Medicine residents is the sole focus of graduate medical education for our entire medical community. Our residents do not compete with residents from any other speciality. Unlike institutions with multiple residencies, our residents whether in the clinic or in the hospital, enjoy the unchallenged opportunity of treating patients with a wide variety of medical conditions. They receive mentoring from both Family Physicians, as well as a wide variety of specialists in our community.

We Are Uniquely Rural

Because Humboldt County is both rural and isolated, patients in our community receive almost all of their medical care here. Few of our patients leave the community for their care because it is over 275 miles to the nearest tertiary care center. This has led to the development of advanced capabilities more typically seen in larger hospitals and communities and provides our residents exposure to patients with a wide range of medical conditions rarely available to Family Medicine residents in other rural programs.

We Are Sponsored By Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka A Regional Medical Center

Although we have only 138 acute beds and a 10 bed Acute Rehabilitation Unit, Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka is the regional medical center for a large geographic area. We are the only Level III Trauma Center, the only Level II NICU, the only STEMI Receiving Hospital, open heart surgery program and the only Regional Cancer Center for over 150 miles in any direction. Whether in the ER, ICU, on Inpatient Medicine, Obstetrics, Surgery, Cardiology or Cancer Care, our residents get experience in treating a wide variety of patients. Being a regional center combined with the fact that our program is unopposed, creates a robust educational opportunity for Family Medicine residents.

We Partner With Open Door Community Health Centers, a FQHC, For Outpatient Training

Our program is a partnership with Open Door Community Health Centers. Open Door is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) with over 12 locations on the North Coast whose mission is to provide quality medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and education to all, regardless of financial, geographic, or social barriers. Our residents see their outpatients weekly at Redwood Community Health Center, adjacent to the hospital. They are assigned a panel of patients from their first day which they follow for their 3 years of training in a Patient Centered Medical Home. Residents also see patients on the Mobile Medical Clinic serving the homeless population.

Providence Medical Group Humboldt Provides Extensive Specialist Faculty

Physicians in specialties including hospitalist medicine, emergency medicine, critical care medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, physical medicine & rehabilitations, neurosurgery, neurology, cardiology, hematology oncology, general & trauma surgery and more from the Providence Medical Group, Humboldt participate as faculty in the Program.

We are Supported by Our Entire Medical Community

Our residency program is fortunate to have the support of our entire medical community. Core faculty in the residents’ clinic are experienced Family Medicine physicians from Open Door Community Health Centers. Providence Medical Group, Humboldt provides an extensive variety of medical specialists in the hospital as well as outpatient clinics. Specialist physicians from Open Door as well as community physicians in private practice are all involved in teaching and mentoring our Family Medicine residents. Whether on hospital rotations, in Inpatient Medicine, in the ER or ICU, in Surgery, or in Labor and Delivery, our residents receive the undivided attention from a wide variety of experienced physicians in our community. Our residents also see patients in the offices of many community physicians on rotations in Dermatology, Orthopedic Surgery, Cardiology, Pediatrics and Geriatric Medicine.

Salary and Benefits Information

Annual Salary

• Post-Graduate Year 1 Salary: $75,015
• Post-Graduate Year 2 Salary: $77,390
• Post-Graduate Year 3 Salary: $82,400

Stipends and Compensation

• $2,000 relocation stipend for first year residents.
• CME Funds ($750 for first years, $1500 for second and third years).
• USMLE Step 3 or COMPLEX Level 3 exam fees are covered by the program.
• ABFM Board Exam fees are covered by the program.
• Licensure fees.

Benefits

The Providence St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka Family Medicine Residency Program will provide residents and eligible dependents with health, dental, vision, and disability insurance. Benefits also include:

• Retirement
• Meal stipend
• 25 days of leave: includes holiday, sick, & vacation
• 5 CME Days per program year
• Confidential counseling services
• Discounted membership to HealthSport - a local full-service gym and health club

Curriculum

Our Goal – We strive to educate Family Physicians who will be excellent clinicians in communities where primary care physicians are needed to practice at the highest level of their training. Our area specifically, and rural communities in general, need FPs who are excellent outpatient physicians, but who are also capable to care for sick patients in the hospital, deliver babies, and work in the emergency room. All Family Medicine residency programs are required to follow the curriculum guidelines specified in the ACGME Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine. What sets our program apart from some others is that being unopposed means that our residents get to train in a community where the focus is solely to educate Family Physicians. They get the benefit of treating a wide variety of patients in a rural regional medical center and having their continuity clinic as part of a long established and well respected Federally Qualified Health Center.

• Year 1
• Family Medicine Fundamentals 4 weeks
• Inpatient Adult Medicine - 12 weeks
• Emergency Medicine - 4 weeks
• OB/Newborn - 4 weeks
• Musculoskeletal - 4 weeks
• Pediatric ER - 4 weeks
• Geriatrics - 4 weeks
• Dermatology - 4 weeks
• Behavioral Health - 4 weeks
• Clinic Intensive - 8 weeks

• Year 2
• Inpatient Adult Medicine - 8 weeks
• Emergency Medicine - 4 weeks
• OB/Newborn - 5 weeks
• Pediatric Inpatient 4 weeks
• Gynecology - 4 weeks
• Pediatrics Outpatient 4 weeks
• Night Float - 4 weeks
• Clinic Intensive - 11 weeks
• Electives - 8 weeks

• Year 3
• Inpatient Adult Medicine - 6 weeks
• Surgery - 2 weeks
• Native American Clinic 4 weeks
• Pediatrics Outpatient 4 weeks
• Clinic Chief - 8 weeks
• Clinic Intensive - 4 weeks
• Night Float - 2 weeks
• Electives - 20 weeks
• ABFM Board Review - 2 weeks