McKay-Dee Hospital Center is a fully equipped tertiary care facility with state-of-the-art technology that supports nationally ranked programs in critical areas of patient care such as heart surgery and newborn intensive care. As the primary inpatient facility serving several northern Utah counties, McKay-Dee also offers full rehabilitation and psychiatry programs. Hospital rotations provide residents opportunities to learn inpatient medical skills in ICU, CCU and obstetrics.

The Porter Family Medicine Residency Clinic located within the hospital serves as an ambulatory training center for the residency program. This setting provides the residents with experience in the most modern outpatient care practices, technology, and nationally recognized computerized clinical databases. The resident is viewed as an integral part of this facility and receives excellent administrative and financial support.
McKay-Dee Hospital Center is part of Intermountain Health Care, a community-owned nonprofit health care organization based in Salt Lake City. The IHC system includes 22 hospitals, clinics, affiliated physicians and health insurance plans. The mission of IHC is to provide quality medical care to those with a medical need, regardless of ability to pay. Each year IHC hospitals provide more than $20 million in charitable assistance.

Family Medicine Residency
The mission of the McKay-Dee Family Medicine Residency is to provide resident physicians with excellence in training, to encourage opportunities for their personal growth, and to ensure the consistent, quality care of their patients. Our commitments are...

* To provide training, and encourage competence in the full spectrum of family medicine in urban and/or rural settings.
* To provide opportunity for residents to utilize new technologies in healthcare delivery systems.
* To encourage specific individualized opportunities and their related development of medical skills and interests.
* To foster an environment in which residents are partners in their educational development.
* To encourage resident involvement with family, the residency, and the community.
* To attend to and promote the resident's physical and emotional well-being.
* To encourage residents to play an active role in the development in the specialty of family medicine.

The Curriculum
Family Medicine Inpatient Service (8 months)
First year residents spend 4 months, second year residents spend 2 months and third year residents spend 2 months on this inpatient service. Call is every fourth night. This service exposes residents to every gamut of family medicine including adult medicine, pediatric medicine, obstetrics and newborn care. One of our own faculty members serves as the attending each week. The resident will admit from the family medical faculty and resident clinic patients, and other obstetric and pediatric patients from physicians in the community.