Ascension St. Vincent
Family Medicine Residency

Why Choose St. Vincent Family Medicine?

St. Vincent has been training Family physicians since family medicine became a specialty in early 1970, making it one of the first family medicine residencies in the nation.

It is a unique and exciting place to train and practice medicine. We have all the resources and academics of a university medical center with the feel of a community hospital.

Come and check us out with a month long Family Medicine elective rotation. We love having 4th year medical students rotate in our Family Medicine clinic. See the elective rotations tab below for more information.


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Diverse Patient Population

  • Care for a vulnerable population. A significant portion of our ambulatory population is without insurance but is able to receive discounted clinical services, testing and medications, allowing residents to provide high quality low-cost care to those in need.

  • New patients every day including patients immigrating to the United States.  Caring for people from other parts of the world provides residents with exposure to many different cultures and can involve treating conditions that are not commonly seen in the United States.

  • Large Hispanic population providing the opportunity for physicians to improve their Spanish fluency.
    • Excellent in-person interpreting services available as well for Spanish and other languages.
  • Global Health Elective with yearly trips
    • Previous trips to Dominican Republic and Guatemala.
  • Full spectrum rural Family Medicine experience available during community medicine rotation

Teaching Opportunities and Leadership Development

  • Opportunity to teach 3rd and 4th year medical students in clinic and on wards
  • Residents in 2nd and 3rd year lead teams with Family Medicine, Transitional Year and Podiatry interns
  • Leadership Development
  • Teaching workshop as second year residents
  • Opportunity to serve on House Staff Council and participate with hospital leadership
  • Opportunity to have leadership roles for the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Opportunities to present research:
  • Annual Ascension St. Vincent Research Symposium
  • Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Annual Research Day
  • Family Medicine Midwest
  • Longitudinal Performance/Quality Improvement Project

Academic Excellence

  • 100% ABFM First-Time Pass Rates
  • Graduates with ABFM Exam Scores above National Average
  • See average ABFM Scores for residencies. We are on page 233.
  • Yearly in-training exam and personalized learning plan for boards preparation

Collaboration

  • Collaboration for teaching, supervision and patient care teams or call shifts with other Ascension St. Vincent residencies and fellowships (Cardiology, General Surgery, Geriatrics, OB/GYN, IM, Peds, Podiatry, Preliminary, Transitional Year)
  • These well-established relationships are one of the best and most valuable aspects of training at St. Vincent.
  • Through our collegial relationships, we foster excellent academic evidence-based patient care and a rich educational environment for residents.
  • PharmDs dedicated to teams on wards and in clinic

Facilities

  • Ascension St. Vincent Indianapolis is a Tertiary referral hospital providing a great variety of pathology
  • Level 1 Trauma Center
  • Peyton Manning Children's Hospital referral center for the state of Indiana
  • St. Vincent Women's Hospital has a large volume of routine and high risk obstetric care and the largest Level 4 NICU in Indiana

Elective Rotations

  • We offer a one month Family Medicine elective July through December
  • Students spend most of the time in the Family Medicine clinic, but may spend 1 week on our adult inpatient service.
  • Interested students should contact Beth Dragoo at bvdragoo@ascension.org.
Observerships
We do not provide observerships before the match. If you match in one of our programs, there is a possibility of an observership or externship after the match and before residency in order to assist you with orientation to our hospital.