Full Circle Health-Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Boise Program

Program Identity & Fit

Full Circle Health/Family Medicine Residency of Idaho – Boise is a mission-driven, FQHC/Teaching Health Center-based program whose explicit purpose is producing broad-spectrum family physicians for rural and underserved Idaho, training at three major hospital systems (St. Luke's Boise, Saint Alphonsus, Boise VA) with a WWAMI/University of Washington academic affiliation. The clinical identity is defined by high procedural and obstetric volume (~110 deliveries per resident, c-section training, colonoscopy/EGD, extensive office procedures), deep behavioral health integration, and named subspecialty tracks in global health/refugee medicine, HIV/infectious disease (Ryan White clinic, HIV National Residency Pathway Consortium), addiction medicine (Suboxone waiver for all residents), osteopathic recognition, and wilderness medicine. Scholarly activity is present and encouraged (regular STFM/AAFP presentations, HelpDesk Answers, community needs assessments) but functions as applied/QI-type scholarship supporting clinical practice rather than a bench-research or physician-scientist pipeline. The program clearly values residents drawn to service in vulnerable, immigrant/refugee, and rural populations, comfort with high autonomy and procedural breadth, and interest in global health or addiction/infectious disease niches.