Residency Experience

Second-Year Resident Curriculum Benefit Information

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Year Two Curriculum

Following the intern year, residents will relocate to Pierre, SD, where residents will work intimately with experienced family physicians to learn the profession in a brand new family medicine facility. Family physicians serve as the primary faculty, with other specialist physicians to complement the teaching rotations. They oversee the educational and evaluation process of the program, coordinating specialty rotations with community physicians who are committed to teaching residents.

Below you'll find a second year resident's requirements, a sample rotation schedule, and all stipends, activities, and benefits information.

Second Year Requirements

Required Rotations

  • 4 weeks Orientation/Health Systems Management
  • 8 weeks ER
  • 8 weeks OB/GYN
  • 8 weeks Inpatient Medicine
  • 4 weeks Surgery
  • 4 weeks Internal Medicine
  • 4 weeks Musculoskeletal/Sports Medicine
  • 4 weeks Outpatient Pediatric
  • 4 weeks Rural Rotation
  • 4 weeks Elective

Longitudinal Curriculum

  • Behavioral Health
  • Community Medicine
  • Quality Improvement/Safety
  • Indigenous Health
  • Health Systems Management
  • POCUS
  • Correctional Medicine
  • Chronic Pain
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Sports Medicine
  • Podiatry
  • Anesthesiology

Electives

  • Dermatology
  • Research/Quality Improvement
  • Ambulatory Medicine
  • Rural Medicine
  • Away Rotations – ad hoc
  • Radiology/POCUS

Second year resident

Sample Rotation Schedule

Block01

Ambulatory/Orientation

Block02

Hospital Medicine

Block03

MS/SM

Block04

Emergency Medicine

Block05

Elective

Block06

OB/GYN

Block07

Pediatrics

Block08

Hospital Medicine

Block09

Surgery

Block10

ER

Block11

Rural

Block12

OB/GYN

Block13

Internal Medicine

Financial benefits

Stipend

$62,500

For second-year residents.

PS — South Dakota has no state income tax

Education

5 days

Total of five paid days of meeting time.

Weeks Vacation

3

You will receive a full three weeks of vacation during your second year.

Work Lunch

Provided

You will be provided a food allowance for noon conferences Monday through Thursday and when on call at the hospitals.

Second year activities

Workshops

Indigenous Health, POCUS, and more at clinics such as South Dakota Urban Indian Health, Avera, and Sanford.

Rural Rotation

Block rotations in rural communities such as Mobridge, SD (population 3,302)

Community Engagement

Doc of Day at the State Capital, speaking engagements, side line medicine at sporting events.

Other benefits

  • 3 Weeks Vacation
  • Vision Insurance
  • Wellness Memberships at Reduced Rate
  • Professional Liability Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Disability
  • Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
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