University of Wisconsin Baraboo Rural Program

Program Identity & Fit

A rural training track in Baraboo, Wisconsin, roughly 45 minutes north of Madison, academically sponsored by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health through its Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. It follows a one-plus-two model in which the first year is spent largely in Madison with a weekly continuity clinic in Baraboo, after which residents relocate and complete years two and three locally. Clinical partners are SSM Health Dean Medical Group Baraboo and SSM Health St. Clare Hospital, and the curriculum covers full-spectrum rural practice including inpatient medicine, obstetrics and newborn care, nursing home rounds, procedures and emergency department coverage. The program offers Osteopathic Recognition and accepts both osteopathic and allopathic applicants, and it highlights an addiction medicine curriculum. The class is very small, with three positions listed for the most recent Match cycle, and the program reports that several of its twelve faculty physicians are its own graduates.