The residency program, which was founded in 1977, is configured with 6 residents in each of three years. There are seven full time family medicine faculty members, with a combined clinical experience of more than 130 years and all are required to maintain active clinical practices. In addition, psychology faculty are on site at all times, together with doctoral students in psychology. The Program emphasizes clinical care and logic and all accreditation standards for patient flow etc, are met or significantly exceeded.
Obstetrics is very active, as well as sports medicine opportunities. Additionally, there is a one year fellowship in advanced obstetrical skills and participation in the Master of Public Health degree at University of Minnesota, leading to both certification and master level degree.
Over the past years, the Program has been the program of choice for University of North Dakota School of Medicine students, seeking an in-state family medicine residency.