Our Curriculum
Our program features an intense full-spectrum hospital service run by faculty family physicians and a busy maternity service run by our own obstetrician/gynecologists and family medicine faculty. We offer pediatric inpatient training in one of the nation’s premiere pediatric hospitals with Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit specialists readily available. Our family medicine continuity clinics provide ample training in outpatient medicine. Geriatric continuity care is provided to residents at a local assisted living/nursing home facility each month. Selected patient home visits are also performed throughout the year. Sixteen weeks of elective time allow residents to customize their training needs. Daily conferences and didactic presentations supplement the clinical curriculum.
Our residents have the opportunity to enhance procedural skills through focused experiences in the ICU and gynecology clinics, as well as in rotations in gastroenterology, general surgery and orthopedics. Colonoscopy training is expected to be a part of next year’s curriculum to enhance skills. We also perform multiple minor procedures in our family medicine clinic.
Safeguards are built in to encourage open and responsive communication among residents and faculty. Monthly meetings address resident issues, resident/faculty issues, and patient care issues. Advisers/mentors are always available to address issues as they arise. Patient care issues are discussed among residents in weekly Balint groups led by our clinical psychologist.
Learn more about each area of our curriculum using the links to the right.