The Magic Valley Rural Training Track (RTT) is a branch of the main Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Program designed especially for broad-spectrum rural family medicine training.  The Magic Valley RTT has been established in the Twin Falls/Jerome area of Idaho, known as the “Magic Valley” because of the support of the medical community and the extremely broad training that is able to be offered there. Residents will become a member of the physician team serving the rural community of Jerome while having the benefit of rotations with specialists in the referral community of Twin Falls, located only fifteen miles away. The flexibility and adaptation of this new program to both the professional and personal needs of the residents is aimed to achieve the balance necessary to make well-prepared, fulfilled family physicians.

The Magic Valley RTT begins in 2008 with one resident per year, graduating our first resident in 2011. The first year of training is completed in Boise with the core residency program.  The second and third year residents complete their training in Magic Valley (about 120 miles East of Boise). In the sister RTT program in Caldwell (established in 1995), all our graduates are board certified, and of nine graduates to date, 60% are practicing in Idaho and 70% are serving in rural areas.  Medical students interested in the Magic Valley RTT program must submit an application through ERAS with details included in the Boise application.  Applicants invited to interview for the Magic Valley RTT will also be interviewing in Boise at the core residency program.