About MSU/MyMichigan Medical Center Alma Family Medicine Residency
We are training family physicians who are compassionate, well prepared for comprehensive practice, and who become excellent clinicians and leaders in the communities where they live and practice.
Why Choose Us?
- Unopposed residency in a small safe rural hospital - There are no other residents at MyMichigan Medical Center Alma, ensuring access to the best hands-on learning opportunities in all relevant sub-specialties plus close collaboration with hospitalists and emergency physicians.
- Intimate Program Size - Enables you to tailor training to your needs, get highly individual attention from your attendings and build strong relationships inside and outside the program.
- Unique Opportunities - Residents will practice in both urban and rural settings, gain teaching experience by working with medical students, and share projects with university researchers at two major institutions. These opportunities are not usually available in smaller, more personal programs like ours.
Program Benefits
- Unique, theme-based didactic curriculum enhanced by longitudinal training in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), Procedural Training, Behavioral Medicine, and Structured Research.
- Emphasis on work-life balance with training and support for our physicians’ mental and physical health.
- Innovative Point-Of-Care Ultrasound training, with an option for achieving an Ultrasound Certification.
- Fully certified training program in Lifestyle Medicine with the option to become dual board certified (Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine) upon graduation.
- Opportunity to build a solid foundation while allowing for innovation.
- Substantial and sustained institutional support from both Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan through MyMichigan Heath.
- MyMichigan Medical Center Alma is the sole hospital in a community with significant socioeconomic diversity. It has a large population of patients with varying, complex illnesses and pathologies.
- 100% board certification passage rate and 100% fellowship acceptance rate.
Resident Benefits
- The program covers the cost of Michigan Educational and Controlled Substance Licenses.
- The program covers the cost of ACLS and NRP certification.
- Each Resident receives a $1,300 per year meal allowance.
- 24-Hour access to Medical Library Resources.
- Adjunct Faculty Michigan State University.
- Opportunity to participate in Health System patient safety and quality improvement committees.
- Employee Assistance Program, offering confidential assessment, referral and short term counseling.
- New Resident Lounge
- Designated physician parking with 24 hour security.
Urban/Suburban Environment
- Our program is housed in a rural community but has access to all the the amenities of major cities.
- The rural environment provides comprehensive care of a large, underserved population. You will be getting excellent training to become competent in treating patients with more complex conditions and comorbidities.
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MyMichigan Health is a training campus for Michigan State University (MSU) and Central Michigan University (CMU) medical programs. This provides an opportunity to develop leadership skills through mentoring and guiding medical students.
- We offer MSU Statewide Campus System (MSU SCS) lectures and conferences in addition to on-site Didactics and have won multiple research awards through the MSU SCS system.
- Award Winning Faculty. Faculty have been selected by the MSU College of Human Medicine for the 2021-2022 Faculty Teaching Award.
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Our program is sponsored by MSU, and MyMichigan Health is affiliated with Michigan Medicine, a health care system of the University of Michigan. This provides an opportunity to practice in a small community hospital while also having access to large academic centers.
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Research: Our Residency program collaborates with both MSU Transdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Program and University of Michigan (U-M) on topics related to rural health medicine.
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State-of-the-art Inpatient Pediatric Care and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, MI.
Cost of Living and Safety
Alma, Michigan is located in the heart of the Lower Peninsula and is close to several large urban communities. Some like to say that we are “urban rural.” You will be living in a family-friendly community. The county also includes Alma College, a private liberal arts college, with 1,400 students.
Our Mission
The program will train high quality compassionate family medicine physicians devoted to serve the rural communities, while addressing the health care needs of our diverse population.
How to Apply
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