About Us

The mission of Marshfield Clinic Division of Education is to serve as an integrated resource to define, develop and deliver education leading to best practice.

The Division of Education will be the preferred resource for physician, employee, patient and customer education that best satisfies the needs of the Marshfield Clinic system and those we serve.

Conferences/Continuing Medical Education

The Conferences/Continuing Medical Education section helps make health care safer, more effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable by providing physicians continuing medical education (CME) programming and continuing education programs to health professionals. Many of these programs are delivered on site at Marshfield Clinic Marshfield Center and videoconferenced throughout the Marshfield Clinic System. Marshfield Clinic is accredited by the Wisconsin Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians and is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The Clinic also holds several accreditations from other agencies to provide continuing education programs for a variety of health professions.

Corporate Education

Corporate Education develops and delivers patient-centered, instructor-lead and computer-based programs that support the Clinic’s mission, systemwide policies and business initiatives. Program topics include customer service, clinical skill competency, basic life support, leadership, and teambuilding. The core values of patient safety, patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction, safe clinical practices, cost effectiveness, efficiency and life-long learning are integrated into each program.

The Clinic is an AHA Training Center providing system-wide Basic Life Support (BLS), Heartsaver First Aid and Heartsaver AED Pediatric CPR. The training Center also offers Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric Life Support (PALS) classes.

Graduate Medical Education/Student Programs

As a state leader in Graduate Medical Education, Marshfield Clinic, an academic campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and in joint sponsorship with Saint Joseph's Hospital, offers physician residency training programs in dermatology, general surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, combined internal medicine/pediatrics and transitional year. Fellowships are sponsored in palliative care, and post-doctoral psychology. More than 460 alumni have gone on to further training or medical practice, with 13 percent of graduates employed by Marshfield Clinic.

Marshfield Clinic has contracted relationships with over 100 colleges to provide clinical experiences in a variety of health professions. Marshfield Clinic has distinguished itself as a clinical campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. As such, students in their third and fourth years of medical school rotate through the Clinic system, though other medical schools are also represented. The Clinic system also prepares a number of other health professionals, including physician assistants, nurses, audiologists, pharmacists, medical assistants, surgical technologists and students in the laboratory sciences.

Media Services

Media Services helps align patient, medical and leadership/management education programs by providing a variety of support services for Marshfield Clinic. Most visibly, the department has implemented and maintains Marshfield Clinic’s system-wide videoconferencing capabilities, offers behind-the-scenes speaker support, and writes - and produces - videos and multimedia computer-based training modules in support of Clinic initiatives.

Medical Library

The G.E. Magnin Medical Library is committed to information excellence as it supports the goals of Marshfield Clinic. Library resources support patient care, education, research, and administration. Collections include print and electronic titles as well as access to online and historic collections. The Medical Library also serves to coordinate the Clinic's History Archives and is home to an extensive Laird Display and collection from Melvin Laird’s years in Washington as congressman and secretary of defense.

Nutrition Services

Nutrition Services helps to reduce the incidence of lifestyle-related disease and disability by providing education and counseling for purposes of general wellness or as part of disease management. Areas of focus include diabetes education, weight management, pediatric specialty areas, gastric bypass, cholesterol management and other nutrition-related issues. The staff provides individual and group counseling sessions. Dietitians participate in the Healthy Lifestyles initiatives, which work with communities throughout the Clinic System.

Patient Education

Patient Education provides high quality and timely services and information to patients, families and communities aimed at standardizing care and reducing the burden of illness and disease. With a focus on self-care and education, numerous programs and displays in Clinic centers and the community provide health messages and materials. In addition, Marshfield Clinic’s Web site offers one of the most comprehensive patient education resources in the country. Single copies of written materials are provided free of charge.