The Wausau Family Medicine Residency Program offers rigorous, unopposed training in a welcoming community.  We are one of the longest-standing family medicine residency programs in Wisconsin, graduating 200+ physicians.  Our outpatient clinic offers spacious, modern facilities and follows the Patient Centered Medical Home care model. We are supported by Aspirus Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wisconsin, an award-winning and growing system in Central Wisconsin serving northern and central Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

“This program is extremely supportive of their residents and works very hard to create opportunity for an individual to pursue their specific goals.”
-Samantha Rivera, MD, Graduate

Our program provides challenging experiences in rural medicine, cardiac and medical intensive care, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics.

Dedicated faculty provide a supportive learning environment where residents enhance their medical knowledge and skills and gain confidence to succeed as independent clinicians. We encourage residents to construct electives that are meaningful to their own goals and interests. Graduates of our program are well prepared and successful in outpatient family medicine practices, urgent care, and hospitalist medicine.

Program Facts

• Accredited to train both osteopathic and allopathic physicians

• 15 residents; 5 per year

• MD and DO faculty; licensed clinical social worker

• The only full time single specialty located at Aspirus Wausau Hospital

• Academic partners with both University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Medical College of Wisconsin

• Residency Start Date: June 16, 2025

• Salaries for AY2024-2025: $67,040 for PGY-1, $69,257 for PGY-2, and $71,422 for PGY-3

• Professional Development Funds: Each resident will receive $1,000 in each of the PGY-1, PGY-2, and PGY-3 training years.

• Professional Development Days: 5 days each year for PGY-1, PGY-2 and PGY-3

• Personal Time Off: 20 days for PGY-1, 20 days for PGY-2, and 20 days for PGY-3

We invite you to learn more about our program and encourage you to contact us. Welcome home to Wausau!

Take a moment to view these recent videos featuring some of our Residents and the Program Director describing our program and residency.

Family Medicine Resident Program with Subtitles (vidyard.com)

Thank A Resident Week (vidyard.com)