University of Minnesota St. John's Hospital Family Medicine Residency

01/26/2026

INTERN RETREAT : our interns spent the past weekend spending time together and away from the hospital/clinic! ❄️

01/23/2026

FACULTY FRIDAY : Meet Dr. Hougas. We are so fortunate to have Dr. Hougas as core faculty. He is passionate about teaching all aspects of family medicine, especially various procedures! Dr. Hougas performs outpatient colonoscopies, and enjoys training interested residents!

12/31/2025

Celebrated year end with a trip to the ice skating rink for our wellness didactic session! ❄️🏒⛸️

12/17/2025

11/24/2025

Grateful for good food and even better co-residents! 🧡 Several of our residents got together for a Friendsgiving celebration!

11/19/2025

WHERE WE PRACTICE: M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital is a community-based, award-winning hospital. Family medicine is well respected and vital to the hospital’s success. The busy emergency room, ICU, and OB service complement the in-depth teaching services in internal medicine, newborn pediatrics, cardiology, and general surgery.

11/07/2025

Several of our residents participated in our Walk with a Doc program today!
Walk with a Doc is a program that allows physicians to connect with the community and patients in a non clinical setting while partaking in physical activity! We are so excited to be incorporating this program into our clinic and residency program!

Join us on Fridays at 12:30PM at Arlington Hills Community Center in St. Paul!

11/02/2025

10/31/2025

FACULTY FRIDAY: Meet Dr. Ronneberg! He is a St. John’s residency grad who is primarily inpatient focused. He works closely with our inpatient medicine team to provide consistent patient centered care! We are so lucky to learn from him!

10/24/2025

FACULTY FRIDAY : Meet our amazing program director, Dr. Smithson!

Dr. Smithson is passionate about mentoring future physicians and fostering compassionate, community-centered care! We are so lucky to have her!

10/21/2025

DIDACTIC DAY! Protected learning time for all residents! Opportunity to learn from faculty, co-residents, and numerous guest speakers.
Today’s Agenda:
- a Registered Dietician spoke to us about nutrition in an inpatient setting
- broke into small groups to talk about AKIs and SIADH
- Dr Walz, nephrologist, talked about CKD management

10/13/2025

Prescribed : one dose of fall fun 🍁

Several of our residents spent the day at the apple orchard!