The learning experiences required in the curriculum consists of one block rotation that is the Orientation learning experience. During this time the resident is oriented to the Full Circle Health System, the 340-B Pharmacy and all the additional required learning experiences. These learning experiences include:
- Ambulatory Care
- Patient Centered Dispensing
- HIV
- 340 -B
- Hepatitis C
- Projects
- Specialty Care: Dermatology, Rheumatology, rural HIV patient management
Elective Learning Experiences include (but are not limited to):
- Administration Management
- Refugee Clinic
- Teaching and Learning
- Women’s Health
- Transgender Care LGTBQ Management
- Medication Assisted Drug therapy management.
- Geriatrics
- Psychiatry
Full Circle Health – Emerald Clinic
Our Emerald clinic is located across the street from our Raymond clinic. It offers a mix of broad primary care and multiple specialty clinics. In addition to faculty and resident Family Medicine clinics, Emerald houses our Wellness Center (a Ryan White funded HIV clinic), TB clinic, viral hepatitis clinic, PrEP clinic, transgender clinic, and refugee services including both refugee screening and primary care. Emerald Clinic additionally houses our 340b pharmacy which opened summer 2013 which will include a rotating PGY-1 Community-Based Pharmacy Resident as they complete their electives required learning experiences. Two R2s and two R3s are empaneled at Emerald each year. Attending support is mainly by the family medicine faculty who see their own patients at Emerald. This clinic offers broad training in family medicine with a specialty/infectious disease bent.
Full Circle Health – Idaho Street
The Idaho Street location is our newest clinical space, having recently relocated to a new spot in downtown Boise. The patient mix has historically had emphasis on pediatrics, obstetrics and women’s health, but now has broad patient panel reflective of Full Circle Health patients, including rapidly increasing geriatrics and multiple languages. In addition to the continuity clinics, there are dedicated OB clinics on Monday and Wednesdays, gynecology clinics on Mondays and a pediatrics clinic each day. There is a musculoskeletal focus with OMT, FDM and Integrative medicine/acupuncture specialty clinics housed here. All Full Circle Health residents are able to experience these clinics. Two R2s and two R3s are empaneled at Idaho Street each year. Attending support is mainly by the family medicine faculty who see their own patients at Idaho St, but many other faculty members often rotate through.
Full Circle Health – Meridian Clinic
Our Meridian clinic is located approximately 8 miles west of Boise, near the St. Luke’s Meridian hospital. The patient population is varied and comes from both suburban (Meridian / Nampa area) and outlying rural towns. Our Spanish speaking population is growing thanks to the work of our Promotora (community health worker) staff. We have a core Meridian OB patient panel that desires delivery at St. Luke’s Meridian giving residents an additional source of OB volume. Our pediatric volume is high due to the demographics of the location in addition to the presence of a pediatrician on our staff. Procedures are abundant and the clinic faculty embraces teaching. Two R2s and two R3s are empaneled at Meridian each year. The Meridian clinic offers residents the opportunity to practice on a single multidisciplinary team. In the Summer of 2020, our second pharmacy location opened next door to the Meridian clinic.
Full Circle Health – Kuna Clinic
The Kuna clinic offers a broad spectrum primary care in the rural town of Kuna, Idaho. No residents are empaneled at this site, but several of our faculty see their own patients there. The Kuna clinic provides care for diverse patients in a supportive, patient-centered, clinically-excellent environment and strive to make healthcare accessible and equitable to the underserved and vulnerable populations in our community.
Full Circle Health – Nampa South
Our Family Medicine Residency training program is dedicated to becoming your patient centered medical home. We provide excellent patient care along with offering superb clinical training for medical residents who are becoming Family Medicine Physicians. At Full Circle Health you will be cared for by a medical team consisting of a physician and a resident physician who will be your primary care providers in conjunction with a mid-level provider (PA, NP, and CNM), psychologist, dietician, clinical pharmacist, community health workers, and care managers. We are a tight-knit team that enjoys teaching and caring for those that need us.
Location & Contact Info:
Full Circle Health – Nampa South
215 East Hawaii Avenue, Suite #140
Nampa, ID 83686
208-514-2529
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Full Circle Health – Nampa North
Located in the campus of the St. Luke’s Nampa Medical Center, this clinic will be where half of each residency class will experience their continuity panel. Fellows will have continuity clinic here as well. Both residents and fellows will have access to an inter-professional team including pharmacists, psychologists, dieticians, and community health workers.
St. Luke’s Nampa Medical Center demonstrates their commitment to the city of Nampa and the growing population of Canyon County. The new 87-bed hospital offers a fully equipped emergency department, family suites for new mothers and their babies, a newborn intensive care unit (NICU), children’s services with outpatient sub-specialists, additional heart and orthopedics services, and an intensive care unit.
Location & Contact Info:
Full Circle Health – Nampa North
9850 W St Lukes Dr., Suite #329
Nampa, ID 83687
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Full Circle Health – Caldwell Clinic
315 East Elm Street, Suite 201, Caldwell, ID 83605
The Caldwell Residency Program site is based at the Elm Clinic. The clinic is located in a 56,000 square foot office building physically attached to West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell. This close proximity allows residents to go back and forth between the clinic and the hospital with ease, helping them to be involved with any interesting cases that may be going on in either location.
