Marshfield Clinic Program

Program Identity & Fit

Marshfield Clinic's Med-Peds program is a rural, community-based training experience embedded within a large, resource-rich health system that also functions as the Northern Academic Campus for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, giving trainees tertiary-referral volume and subspecialty access uncommon for a small city. The program is explicitly designed to prepare "well-rounded" physicians for either inpatient or outpatient practice, coordinating closely with categorical internal medicine and pediatrics rather than operating as an isolated track. Scholarly activity is structured and supported through a dedicated Resident Research Program, a large in-house research institute (Marshfield Clinic Research Institute) with biostatistics and QI/QA support, and expectations of active participation in evidence-based learning, though this is framed as an integrated competency rather than a pipeline to physician-scientist careers. The program values clinical excellence, strong work ethic, and demonstrated commitment to combined med-peds practice, reflected in its preference for applicants with actual clinical exposure to both specialties.