Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Program A

Program Identity & Fit

This is UNLV's Rural Family Medicine Residency, a dual-site program that splits training between urban Las Vegas (PGY-1) and Winnemucca, Nevada (PGY-2/3) at Humboldt General Hospital, an isolated critical-access hospital serving a roughly 100-mile catchment with Reno as the nearest referral center 2.5 hours away. The explicit mission is to produce full-scope rural family physicians who manage trauma, OB deliveries, first-assist on surgeries, and a broad range of procedures with minimal subspecialty backup, reflecting a deliberate design to build independence and procedural breadth rather than subspecialty referral habits. Research exists as a mandatory but modest component (one scholarly project and one QI project per resident, mentored, with presentation opportunities at the Nevada AFP conference) rather than a driver of program identity. Graduate outcomes skew heavily toward rural and community full-scope practice, rural EM, and hospitalist work, and the program director explicitly states they seek humble, teachable, curious residents with strong work ethic drawn to rural, underserved practice rather than fellowship-oriented or research-driven candidates.