Family Medicine at Mayo Hospital, Dover-Foxcroft, ME

To provide the GME learner with a modern rural general family medicine outpatient practice experience

To provide the GME learner with a modern rural general family medicine outpatient practice experience with an interprofessional team of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, and Diabetes Educators affiliated with a Critical Access Hospital in Central/Western Maine.

Work with Primary Care clinicians on the prevention and management of common, and uncommon, acute and chronic medical conditions in an area with limited local access to resources.

Opportunities for geriatric care

Opportunities for geriatric care, including up to 1 hour-long comprehensive geriatric assessment visits.

Opportunities for integrating medication assisted treatment

Opportunities for integrating medication assisted treatment for various substance use disorders in a rural Primary Care practice.

Opportunities for primary care nonsurgical gender affirming treatment

Opportunities for primary care nonsurgical gender affirming treatment in an area with limited number of gender affirming care providers.

Opportunities for minor outpatient Dermatological procedures

• Cryotherapy of warts, skin tags, and actinic keratoses
• Excisional, punch, and shave biopsies of skin lesions and rashes
• Minor laceration repairs

Opportunities for minor outpatient Orthopedic procedures

• Intra-articular, bursal, trigger finger and trigger point injections

Mayo Hospital facilities

Mayo Hospital has a hospital-owned house on site. There is laundry, common space in the living room and kitchen, and 2 shared bathrooms. Others staying there intermittently include locums, traveling nurses, full-time employees on call, and occasional students.