Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc-ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Neenah Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based internal medicine residency embedded in ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah, a regional stroke center and level 2 trauma hospital serving the Fox Valley and surrounding rural/critical-access communities in northeast Wisconsin, now allied academically with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert. The program's stated mission centers on training internists who manage the full continuum of acuity and lead system-level improvement, reflected in its four pillars (critical thinking, ownership, humanism, flourishing), a 4+1 ambulatory-block structure, a resident-built POCUS curriculum, and rotations spanning critical-access emergency departments and subspecialty exposure at a sister cardiac-care campus in Appleton. Research infrastructure exists (a dedicated non-cancer Clinical Research Office and named research faculty) but is oriented toward quality improvement, patient safety and population-level projects rather than bench or grant-funded investigation, and career messaging emphasizes hospitalist/outpatient community practice, process improvement and regional physician workforce development rather than fellowship subspecialization. Faculty narratives repeatedly emphasize longstanding community roots, relationship-based primary care, and a "grow our own" ethos, with explicit preference for applicants with regional ties.