Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) GME Consortium

What Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) GME Consortium does

The Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) GME Consortium is a non-profit, ACGME-accredited institutional sponsor of graduate medical education founded in 2019 and headquartered in Wausau, Wisconsin. It was established to address physician shortages across the northernmost 37 counties of Wisconsin, a region that includes 27 Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations. WiNC sponsors five residency and fellowship programs — Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine, MCW-Central Wisconsin Psychiatry, MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine, Mosaic Fox Valley Family Medicine, and the Tamarack Health Emergency Medicine Fellowship — and supports an Aspirus Hospital Medicine Fellowship, with clinical training distributed across Wausau, Green Bay, Appleton, Ashland, Central Wisconsin, and rural rotation sites in Antigo and Duluth.

The consortium's core technology is its ACGME-accredited institutional framework: it provides accreditation compliance, curriculum design, faculty oversight, and program administration on behalf of member health systems, while partner institutions (Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) provide academic affiliation and the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) / ERAS / Thalamus platforms handle recruitment. Training is delivered across a mix of urban, suburban, and rural settings, with notable curriculum components including a Hospital Medicine Academic Team (HMAT), a longitudinal Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) program, Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment (OMT) training via the Wisconsin Statewide Osteopathic Collaborative, and rural medicine rotations.

WiNC's revenue model is grant- and sponsorship-based, not commercial. The 2019 Wisconsin Department of Health Services New Residency grant provided founding capital, the 2016 Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Grant through MCW funded the initial GME needs assessment, and ongoing operations are sustained by institutional sponsorship from 15 member health systems, medical schools, and advocacy organizations. Resident salaries (PGY 1–4 ranging $71,937–$81,002 for AY2026-2027, with the Hospitalist Fellowship at $90,000 plus a $200,000 student-loan support stipend) are funded through health system partners rather than WiNC directly. The consortium is governed collaboratively by its member organizations and led by a Designated Institutional Official and Executive Director operating with a small core staff of approximately 6 people.

Name

Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) GME Consortium

Legal name

Wisconsin Northern & Central (WiNC) GME Consortium

Website

https://wincgme.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

WiNC GME Consortium is a non-profit, ACGME-accredited institutional sponsor coordinating family medicine, psychiatry, and emergency medicine residency and fellowship programs across northern and central Wisconsin to address physician shortages in 37 counties.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Wausau

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Health System Sponsorship: WiNC is supported by health systems, medical schools, residencies, and healthcare advocacy groups that provide institutional sponsorship and infrastructure for residency programs.
2. Government Grants: Department of Health Services New Residency grant funds awarded in early 2019 to establish WiNC; Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Grant through Medical College of Wisconsin funded initial GME needs and capacity assessment starting in 2016.
3. Graduate Medical Education Funding: Federal and state GME funding mechanisms support residency positions; salary and benefits funded through health system partnerships.

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Core offering

WiNC GME Consortium is an ACGME-accredited institutional sponsor that coordinates, administers, and sponsors graduate medical education residency and fellowship programs across northern and central Wisconsin. It supports training in family medicine, psychiatry, and emergency medicine through a multi-site consortium model spanning partner health systems, hospitals, and academic medical schools. The consortium addresses physician workforce shortages in rural and underserved counties by providing accreditation, administrative infrastructure, curriculum oversight, and clinical training site coordination.

Product overview

WiNC GME Consortium is an ACGME-accredited institutional sponsor that operates as a regional consortium coordinating graduate medical education across northern Wisconsin. The consortium sponsors multiple residency programs including Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Residency, MCW-Central Wisconsin Psychiatry, MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine, Mosaic Fox Valley Family Medicine, and Tamarack Health Emergency Medicine Fellowship. Additionally, it supports an Aspirus Hospital Medicine Fellowship. These programs work together under the WiNC institutional umbrella to address physician shortages in rural Wisconsin, with member health systems, medical schools, and residencies collaborating to provide high-quality resident education in an underserved region.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• WiNC GME Consortium Institutional Sponsorship ACGME-accredited institutional sponsor that oversees and coordinates residency programs across northern Wisconsin, providing administrative support, accreditation compliance, and workforce development for member health systems and academic partners.
• Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Residency

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Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ascension HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthcare system partner providing clinical training sites and institutional support for WiNC GME residency programs in Wisconsin.
• Aspirus, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary health system partner hosting Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Residency and Hospital Medicine Fellowship; operates 19 hospitals and 130+ outpatient locations.
• Hospital Sisters Health System - St. VincentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth system partner providing clinical training facilities for MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine Residency at St. Vincent Hospital.
• Mosaic Family HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost organization for Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency in Appleton, Wisconsin.
• Prevea HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth system partner for MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine Residency Program.
• Rural Wisconsin Health CooperativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative network supporting rural GME programs; recognized David Lally as Rural Health Ambassador in 2023 for contributions to rural healthcare.
• Tamarack HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth system hosting Tamarack Health Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Ashland Medical Center; AAPS-accredited BCEM fellowship program.
• Willow Creek Behavioral HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBehavioral health partner providing clinical training opportunities for psychiatry residency programs.
• Wisconsin Collaborative for Rural GMEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStatewide collaborative focused on expanding rural graduate medical education opportunities in Wisconsin.
• Wisconsin Council on Medical Education & WorkforceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState council focused on medical education and healthcare workforce policy and planning.
• Wisconsin Department of Health ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState agency providing DHHS New Residency grant funds in 2019 to establish WiNC; regulatory oversight for healthcare workforce.
• Wisconsin Hospital AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState hospital association supporting healthcare workforce development and GME program advocacy.
• Wisconsin Medical SocietyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState medical society providing professional development support and physician advocacy for WiNC programs.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Aspirus Health: WiNC's anchor health system partner (19 hospitals, 130+ outpatient locations across northern Wisconsin). Not a peer in the GME consortium sense, but the dominant clinical training infrastructure for WiNC and a natural counterparty for any consortium scaling or restructuring.
• Marshfield Clinic Health System: Wisconsin-headquartered rural health system operating its own GME programs; relevant comparator for understanding the rural Wisconsin physician-training landscape in which WiNC competes for residents, faculty, and partner sites.

Regional players

• University of Vermont Health Network: Operates GME programs across Vermont and upstate New York with a similar rural/small-city profile to northern Wisconsin; comparable as a multi-site institutional sponsor serving an underserved, geographically dispersed region.
• MaineHealth: Large Maine-based regional health system that sponsors ACGME-accredited residency programs across rural and small-city sites; comparable to WiNC's consortium model in terms of operating regional GME in a geographically dispersed, underserved service area.

Broad incumbents

• Medical College of Wisconsin: WiNC's primary academic partner and itself a major ACGME institutional sponsor with residency and fellowship programs across Wisconsin. Comparable as a regional GME sponsor, but operates at significantly larger scale and with a broader specialty footprint.
• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health: Wisconsin's flagship allopathic medical school and a WiNC academic partner. Comparable as a multi-site ACGME institutional sponsor and as a convener of residency training, though with statewide rather than northern-Wisconsin focus and far greater scale.

Emerging players

• University of New Mexico School of Medicine: Runs longstanding rural-focused residency programs across New Mexico targeting HPSA-designated counties — a closely analogous mission to WiNC's rural physician pipeline work, though organized through a single medical school rather than a standalone consortium.

Direct peers

• University of Washington School of Medicine (WWAMI): Operates the WWAMI regional medical education program spanning Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho — the most prominent U.S. example of a multi-state, rural-focused regional GME consortium model directly analogous to WiNC's northern Wisconsin footprint.

Market position

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Customer concentration

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