Medical Student Education Track
The South Side Family Medicine Residency program, in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, offers a Medical Student Education track for Resident Physicians with an interest in curriculum development, teaching, and assessment. In this track, residents will have opportunities to develop their medical student education abilities in the following areas:
- Teach “Phase 1” (pre-clinical) medical students’ physical exam and diagnostic reasoning in MCW’s early doctoring courses.
- Facilitate Problem Based leaning sessions where students have integrated basic science discussions centered around a clinical case.
- Provide communication and diagnostic reasoning feedback to medical students as they complete their Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs)
- Participate in Team Based Learning interactive didactics in MCW’s Family Medicine Clerkship
- Serve at the Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured as a medical student preceptor
- Design, implement, and present new curriculum facilitated by the KERN Insititute’s Transformational Ideas Initiative and the MCW Department of Family Medicine.
- Attend and present at the Society of Teacher’s of Family Medicine’s Conference on Medical Student Education
The goals of this track are to:
- Provide resident physicians with opportunities to get involved in medical student education and teach the next generation of physicians
- Develop the necessary skillset to effectively teach medical students
- Consider careers in undergraduate medical education when they graduate from residency
Spanish Immersion Curriculum
South Side’s Spanish Immersion Curriculum is one of the most distinctive elements of our program — and one we’re proud to have built from the ground up. Every incoming resident begins their training with a four-week immersive Spanish experience during the Introduction to Practice Rotation, led by South Side’s dedicated Spanish instructor, Jennifer Flamboe. Curriculum is tailored to each resident’s current language ability, ensuring meaningful growth at every level. From there, longitudinal learning opportunities — led by faculty and community members alike — continue throughout all three years of residency. Our goal is clear: to graduate physicians who can provide care to Spanish-speaking patients in their native language, meeting a critical need right here in Milwaukee and in communities across the country.
Addiction Medicine
One of our program’s goals is that every graduating physician will be confident in incorporating addiction treatment into their future practices, alongside all of the other chronic diseases that Family Physicians regularly treat. All interns that enter our program receive buprenorphine and addiction medicine training at the beginning of their residency experience. All residents will rotate through our addiction intake clinic and will form relationships with patients, then take them onto their own panels when patients “graduate” from the intake clinic. Residents also have the option to participate in an addiction medicine rotation where they will participate in hospital consultations for patients hospitalized with substance use disorders at Froedtert hospital. We also offer experiences rotating in residential treatment, intensive outpatient group therapy treatment, individual substance use disorder counseling, methadone clinic, and needle exchange harm reduction services. All residents in our program can expect to have patients with substance use disorders on their panel and will graduate competent in providing comprehensive care for patients living with addiction. We have started an addiction medicine fellowship and welcomed our first fellow in July 2026. Click here for more information about this program: https://carefellowship.org/
Behavioral Medicine
The behavioral medicine curriculum for our residency is led by Dr. Lauren Mascari. Throughout their training, residents will be challenged to create treatment plans for patients following a biopsychosocial care perspective, with emphasis on understanding the connection between mental and physical health. Residents will learn to understand how systemic factors like family dynamics and the environment can impact health. Individual and family interviewing skills are developed by reviewing video recordings of resident-patient interactions. In addition to the video reviews, residents receive an annual behavioral health workshop for further practice. Monthly Balint groups are also provided to enhance the understanding of the patient-doctor relationship.
This foundation ensures our graduates are equipped to meet the mental health needs of patients facing complex social and economic circumstances — a reality central to practice on Milwaukee’s South Side.
Sports Medicine
Residents interested in pursuing extra experience and exposure to sports medicine will have the opportunity to work with Dr. Jeremy Waldhart, who serves as the Team Physician for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) athletics, providing sideline coverage, concussion care, and primary care for their athletes. Residents can train with local primary care Sports Medicine specialists, complete scholarly work in sports medicine, and provide coverage for many local sporting events from high school through Division 1 collegiate level sports. Upon completion of the Sports Medicine track, residents will be prepared to pursue a Sports Medicine fellowship if desired.
Maternal Child Health
Residents interested in pursuing additional obstetric training are able to rotate on labor and delivery during their second and third year of residency. During this time, residents gain experience in high-risk triage, labor management, and vaginal deliveries. Residents should expect to complete 100 vaginal deliveries, take on additional continuity obstetric patients, and gain proficiency in limited ultrasound skills. Residents will be strong candidates for Maternal Child Health Fellowships if desired after graduation.
Urgent Care
Residents have the opportunity to pursue specialized training in urgent care in their second and third years of residency under the direction of Dr. Jahanvi Kothari, who has many years of urgent care expertise. Training will include additional urgent care/emergency room experiences and urgent care procedural competency using workshops and simulation. The focus of this training will be mastering acute management of patients in a clinic setting, recognizing when a higher level of acuity is needed, and procedural efficiency.
Community Medicine
Our clinic is located on the beautiful south side of Milwaukee, centered in a Latinx community. Residents interested in community medicine will have support in completing a community health assessment, engaging new and existing community partnerships, and completing a community-based project.
