Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program

• High patient volume with largely underserved and ethnically diverse populations
• Over 70 percent of our patients are on state insurance and around 40 percent have limited English proficiency
• Partner with the Minnesota Department of Health on refugee medicine
• Hands-on training for in-office procedures
• A certified health care home in St. Paul
• Located two blocks from the Capitol building

Integrated healthcare team on-site

• Clinical psychology and psychiatry teams 
• Pharmacists co-precept residents and consult on medications
• Community physicians and former graduates precept with core faculty
• Registered nurses perform phone triage, conduct patient follow-up, and coordinate OB patient visits
• Healthcare-legal partnership with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) to address the legal needs that present health equity barriers to patients
• In-person interpreters available in our patients' most common languages
• Two full-time social workers and one full-time community health worker

Facility highlights

• 27 spacious exam rooms with access to electronic medical records
• Procedure rooms for ultrasound, joint injections, long-acting reversible contraception insertion and removal, suturing, casting, biopsies, dermatology procedures, and osteopathic manipulations
• Spacious residents’ workroom and preceptor area
• X-ray and lab

Since its inception, Frogtown has been home to several different immigrant and refugee populations including Polish, Irish, German, Scandinavian, and more recently, Southeast Asian, Latine/Latinx, and East African. Frogtown also includes the Rondo neighborhood, which is a prominent Black neighborhood that was fragmented to build I-94.