PGY-1 Magic Valley (1-2) half days per week, 1st 6 months (2) half days per week, 2nd 6 months 3-6 patients per half day |
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Rotation | Weeks | Location |
Medicine | 8/8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Pediatrics | 12 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley & Treasure Valley |
Obstetrics | 8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Surgery | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
AFM/GYN | 4 | Office |
Geri/Derm | 2/2 | Office |
NICU/Rural | 2/2 | St. Luke’s/Twin Falls |
PGY-2 Magic Valley (2) half days per week, 8-10 patients per half day |
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Rotation | Weeks | Location |
Medicine | 8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Pediatrics | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
OB | 8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Rad/Derm | 2/2 | Office |
CM/AFM | 4 | Office |
ER | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Ortho | 4 | Office |
Card/CCU | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Elective | 4 | Office |
Surgery | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Rural | 4 | Away |
PGY-3 Magic Valley (1) half days per week, 10-12 patients per half day |
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Rotation | Weeks | Location |
Medicine | 8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Pediatrics | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
Obstetrics | 8 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
ER | 4 | Office |
Sports Medicine | 4 | Office |
ICU | 4 | St. Luke’s Magic Valley |
FM/ENT | 2/2 | Office |
Uro/Ophtho | 4 | Office |
Elective | 12 | Office |
St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center
801 Pole Line Road West, Twin Falls, Idaho 83301
SLMVMC is located in Twin Falls, Idaho. It is a 220 bed facility with an active medical staff of 166 physicians specializing in allergy and immunology, anesthesiology, cardiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, general and vascular surgery, internal medicine, pulmonology, rheumatology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, medical and radiation oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, ENT, pathology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, and urologic surgery.

St. Luke’s Jerome Medical Center
709 North Lincoln, Jerome, Idaho, 83338
St. Benedicts is a mission-driven, non-profit 25 bed critical access hospital with associated physician practices. We specialize in family medicine, emergency medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, cardiology, dental surgery, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, and radiology. Our St. Benedicts professional team provides high quality patient oriented care and is dedicated to caring for the underserved.

St. Luke’s Jerome Family Medicine
132 W. 5th Ave. Ste. 1, Jerome, ID 83338
At St. Luke’s Jerome Family Medicine, we provide personal care for the entire family. Our team of residents and board certified family physicians and our nurse practitioner are here to provide a holistic patient centered medical home. We are the residency family medicine continuity clinic. We pride ourselves on caring for patients as a part of our community family. We provide care for all ages from newborns to seniors and for most medical conditions as well as pregnancy and delivery. We provide many services to our community including colonoscopy, EGD, C-sections, colposcopy, and vasectomy, as well as frequent smaller surgical procedures. Resident physicians are treated as colleagues. They have their own practice, deliver their own continuity obstetric patients, and care for their own medical patients. The patient population includes primarily Caucasians with a strong Hispanic population of about 30%. The work force is primarily employed in agriculture and aquaculture and related industries.
St. Luke’s Clinic Physician Center
775 Pole Line Road West, Suite 105, Twin Falls, Idaho 83301
St. Luke’s Clinic Physician Center provides experienced family practice and pediatric health care to people of all ages in the Magic Valley. We have a wide scope of practice, including: Women’s health (non-OB), Vasectomy, Childhood diseases, Diabetes management for children, adolescents, and adults, Pediatric behavioral health care.
“For Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: Is Office Based Treatment with Buprenorphine/Naltrexone as Effective as Traditional Methadone Maintenance for Sustained Remission?” Evidence-Based Practice, Victoria Kincaid, MD, Logan Perkins, DO, and Peter Ferrara MD. in editing process 2021
“Does azithromycin increase likelihood of potentially lethal dysrhythmias?” Evidence-Based Practice, Anthony Markuson, Luke Sugden, and Peter Ferrara. in editing process 2020
“Is Exercise an Effective Treatment for Osteopenia?” Evidence-Based Practice, Kena Lackman, Tony Blankers, and Nicole Ruske. in editing process 2019
WWAMI Network RTT teleconference presentation “Community Orientation in the RTT” J. Kern, MD; 9/19/2018
Waterman S, Henderson, J, Kern JW. Does early integration of palliative care services improve outcomes for patients with advanced cancer over usual care? Evidence-Based Practice. in editing process 2018
AAFP Program Directors Workshop, Kansas City, MO. Poster: “Update on American with Disabilities Act in Residency Education: A Resident’s Experience” Kern, J. Doyle, C. Stutzman, K. March 2018
Doyle C, Mertz-Hack T, Kern J. Do mental activities such as crossword puzzles and Sudoku reduce risk of developing dementia? Evidence-Based Practice. September 2017, Volume 20 (9), p 13–14.
Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) International Conference, Ashville, NC. Innovations poster “WRITE and RTT Training at a Unique Rural Site in Idaho”. Presented by co-author, Barinaga, M. October 2015.
Idaho Medical Association Annual Meeting, “Antibiotics: A Historical Perspective and Current Pearls” August 9, 2008
ACMEC lecture, “Current Topics in Antibiotic Use”, March 26, 2008 Molecular Biology of the Cell. Reconstitution and characterization of budding yeast gamma-tubulin complex. Vinh DB, Kern JW, Hancock WO, et al. 4/2002 Volume 13 Pages 1144-1157
Journal of Biological Chemistry. Yeast Mps1p phosphorylates the spindle
Pole component Spc110p in the N-terminal domain. Friedman DB, Kern JW, Huneycutt BJ, et al. 5/2001 Volume 276 Pages:17958-17967