Utah HealthCare Institute-St Mark's Program

Program Identity & Fit

St. Mark's is a small, unopposed, community-based family medicine residency (four residents per year) sponsored by an independent non-profit rather than a university or hospital corporation, built around a signature "Clinic Every Day" continuity model that gives residents their own patient panel five days a week, including during hospital rotations. Training occurs at St. Mark's Hospital (325-bed, Level II trauma) and Primary Children's Medical Center, with residents as the sole learners on nearly all rotations, home-call structure, and 9 months of elective time for individualized pathways. The program emphasizes full-spectrum outpatient primary care with strong procedural, obstetric, sports medicine, lifestyle medicine, and addiction medicine tracks (Ski Clinic, mother-baby OB track with c-section pathway, teaching track), and prepares residents for both direct community practice and competitive fellowships (sports medicine, OB, geriatrics, addiction, hospice/palliative). Research is not a defining feature; the program instead values self-directed adult learners drawn to continuity of care, procedural breadth, outdoor/mountain lifestyle, and community-embedded practice over academic or research-heavy trajectories.