Medical Career Training | Family Medicine Program | Milwaukee WI

All residents in our program become proficient in a number of basic procedures. Residents are taught by faculty who are practiced in these procedures and experienced in communicating the required skills and knowledge. The procedures we consider "basic" include:

Neonatal circumcision
Skin punch biopsy
Skin cryosurgery
Lesion excision
Abscess incision & drainage

Suturing
Cerumen removal anoscopy
Splinting
Epistaxis management
Endometrial biopsy

State-of-the-art
Equipment and Space

The Family Health Center has 3 large procedure rooms equipped with the latest technology. You will learn procedures using state-of-the-art equipment such as treadmill, colposcope, handheld and tank type cryo units, external fetal heart tracing unit, ultrasound, and dermatologic electrosurgical unit.

Joint injection or aspiration
Exercise Stress Test
Adult lumbar puncture
Pediatric lumbar puncture
Thoracentesis
Nasal/endotracheal intubation

Residents who want to gain broader experience with office procedures will find ample opportunity to do so. Among the procedures that residents may choose to learn at their discretion are:

Colposcopy
LEEP
IUD insertion/removal
Casting
Toenail removal
Flexible sigmoidoscopy
Chest tube placement/thoracotomy
Arterial line placement
Central line placement
Vasectomy
Obstetrical Ultrasound *
Paracentesis

* Obstetrical Ultrasounds plus many additional obstetrical procedures are experienced through the Maternity Care Track specifically.

CSM residents learn from some of the best in the fields of colposcopy, vasectomy and other office-based procedures. One faculty member is the author of what is commonly considered the text book on colposcopy, while another is a leader in no-scalpel vasectomy. One nurse schedules every procedure to include a resident. This means no procedure is done without resident participation. If you want to obtain privileges, you will have the opportunity to become skilled in these procedures.

Procedural Training