Quick Facts

The Numbers behind Our Procedural Training

Vaginal Deliveries: 150-250
C-Sections: 50-60
Forceps: 10-20
Vacuum: 15-25
Colonoscopy: 80-100
EGD: 40-50
Colposcopy/LEEP: 15-30
Stress Treadmill: 20-40

Via Christi Family Medicine Residency program is an unopposed, community-based program, servicing Wichita and rural Kansas (population base of 500,000 plus). The residents at Via Christi are treated as competent physicians from day one, and given freedom to care for patients at their comfort level with faculty, consultants, and the resources for the competent care you desire. Our program will prepare you to be a competent, confident, and caring physician who will be comfortable practicing in a rural, urban, suburban, or overseas practice - you will then choose your scope of practice as a future family physician rather than having your training program become the limiting factor.

Strong OB and Procedural TrainingUltrasound

  • Current hospital average of 250 deliveries/month
  • Residents work with area obstetricians and family physicians
  • Residents are primary surgeons on C-sections
  • Low and high-risk obstetrics
  • Operative gynecology
  • EGD, colonoscopy, colposcopy, LEEP, treadmills, OB ultrasound, and much more

Sports Medicine Fellowship

  • Fellowship-trained sports medicine physicians on staff
  • Sports medicine fellowship for two fellows each year
  • Ample opportunities to provide medical care at area sporting events-minor league hockey (Central Hockey League - Wichita Thunder), minor league baseball (Wichita Wingnuts), Wichita State University (NCAA Div I), Newman University (NCAA Div II), and most of the local high school sporting events

International Medicine Fellowship

  • Designed for the training of Family Physicians in the important areas of training needed most in remote areas that are not readily available in the United States
  • Tropical Medicine (with certification) – 2 months, Trauma – 2 months, Anesthesia – 1 month, Ultrasound – 1 month, Dental – 1 month, Wound & Burn Care – (longitudinal), Training Abroad in Africa at supervised site – 5 months
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  • 5 months abroad covering a single site along with the other fellows

Unique Clinical Settings

  • Choices Medical Clinic is a unique opportunity to care for crisis pregnancies, prenatal care, Perinatal Hospice, and 4-D Ultrasonography training (www.choicesmc.org)
  • Osteopathic Manipulation Clinic allows for the osteopathic physicians in the program to utilize and improve their skills-program Is a dually-accredited Family Medicine training program
  • Guadalupe Clinic is a volunteer clinic to provide health care to the underserved Latino population (which make up around 10% of the local population)
  • Center for Health and Wellness (http://www.wichitawellness.org/) - “Inner city healthcare rotation for residents with an emphasis in maternal care

Completely Digital healthcare Setting

  • Completely integrated EMR in outpatient clinics
  • Each resident receives a tablet PC at the start of residency for full access while in the hospitals and clinics

Faculty/Teaching Physicians

  • Our faculty are paid to teach, act as inpatient hospitalists on call, and supervise all the deliveries on your patients
  • Pediatrician on faculty in addition to our family physicians (faculty to resident ratio at 1:3)
  • Supportive specialists and community family physicians that we work directly with in the hospital

Benefits/Vacation

  • Total Salary and Benefits: PGY1= $54,472 PGY2 = $56,050 PGY3 = $57,653
  • Professional allowance: $1000/year
  • Meals: provided
  • Vacation 3 weeks/year (15 days) - Sick leave 10 days/year - CME 5 days/year
  • Certification courses provided by the residency: ACLS, PALS, ALSO, NRP, ATLS

Residents

  • The second largest program in the country with up to 18 residents per class
  • Large class sizes allows adequate coverage for the high volume of care we provide to the area, provides a great pool of resources to learn from, and allows the group to function normally when unforeseen circumstances arise

Wichita

  • Wichita has won the national distinction of “All-American City” not once…but three times. It is the largest city in Kansas. Housing is affordable, local schools are good, the cost of living is low, and the population is diverse.

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