Idaho State University Rural Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Rexburg rural training arm of the Idaho State University family medicine residency, a university-sponsored, unopposed program whose base site is Pocatello. It matches one resident per year, alongside an eight-per-year Pocatello base and a two-per-year Rupert rural track. The first year is spent at the base site, covering inpatient hospital medicine including intensive care, obstetrics and outpatient clinic at a 205-bed teaching hospital with a Level II trauma center; the remaining years are longitudinal in Rexburg, moving between hospital and clinic settings. Pediatric and pediatric emergency training is done at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. The curriculum emphasizes full-spectrum rural practice with extensive outpatient procedural training, and residents may emphasize surgical obstetrics, endoscopy or wilderness medicine.