Family Practice

 
Our Family Practice Residency Program is focused on training physicians to develop a broad base of knowledge, a dedication to compassionate care and a love for practicing family medicine. With numerous educational settings and patient experiences, this comprehensive program prepares physicians to not only provide health care to people of all ages, but also to assume leadership roles in medicine and the community, and contribute to the evolving knowledge base of family practice.
 
Our Family Practice Residency Program is a three-year (36 month) osteopathic post-graduate program. The program is an AOA-approved residency with both DO and MD faculty physicians which accepts 5 new residents each academic year.
 
Continuity of care for patients is at the core of the family practice philosophy and is a top priority in our program. The ambulatory care experience provides evidenced-based, quality health care and our residency program clinic helps to provide the longitudinal
hands-on training for our resident physicians. The requirements for continuity clinic participation are as follows:
    • PGY 1     one half day per week
    • PGY 2     four half days per week
    • PGY 3     four half days per week
To learn more about the continuity clinic site please click here.
 
Rotation Schedule
 
The academic year consists of 13 blocks which are each four weeks in length. The Family Practice curriculum is listed below but is not in order of how the training blocks will be organized.
 
 

 Block

 PGY 1 

 PGY 2 

 PGY 3 

 1

 InternalMedicine

 Internal Medicine

 Medicine Subspecialty

 2

 Internal Medicine

 Internal Medicine

 Medicine Subspecialty

 3

 Internal Medicine

 Inpatient Pediatrics

 Medicine Subspecialty

 4

 Internal Medicine

 Outpatient Pediatrics

 Surgery Subspecialty

 5

 OBGYN Service

 OBGYN Service

 Surgery Subspecialty

 6

 OBGYN Service

 Ambulatory Medicine

 Urgent Care

 7

 Inpatient Pediatrics

 Surgery Subspecialty

 Psychiatry

 8

 Outpatient Pediatrics

 Outpatient Psychiatry

 Pediatrics

 9

 ICU

 Urgent Care

 Community Medicine

 10

 Cardiology

 Medicine Subspecialty

 Research

 11

 Emergency Medicine

 Emergency Medicine

 Elective

 12

 General Surgery

 Elective

 Elective

 13

 Elective

 Elective 

 Elective 

 
 
Didactic Components
 
The clinical experience will be supplemented by a structured didactic program comprised of:

Daily Morning Report (Monthly Template Schedule Below)

 Week

 Monday    

 Tuesday    

 Wednesday    

 Thursday    

 Friday    

1

 FP Journal Club

 Inpt Medicine Case

 Psychiatry Case

 OMT/Board Review

 Outpt Medicine Case

2

 Sub Specialty Case

 Inpt Medicine Case

 EKG Rounds

 OMT/Board Review

 Outpt Medicine Case

3

 OMT Case

 Inpt Medicine Case

 Tumor Board

 OMT/Board Review

 Outpt Medicine Case

4

 MKSAP Review

 Inpt Medicine Case

 Psychiatry Case

 OMT/Board Review

 Outpt Medicine Case

Daily Noon Lecture
 
Noon Lectures cover a wide variety of topics and sub specialities aimed at creating well rounded learning experience. The curriculum is 18 months in duration, with the hope that you will be exposed to all lectures over the length of training. The noon lecture curriculum series consists of the following areas:
  • Outpatient Medicine
  • Sub-Specialty Medicine
  • Pharmacy Medicine
  • Business, Law and Ethics of Medicine
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conferences
Academic Half Day
 
One half day per block is designated specifically to address and discuss clinical and practice management topics that surround Family Medicine. This time is protected from rotation and other clinical responsibilties and all interns and residents attend.
 
Residents are assigned to coordinate at least one half day per academic year. They work closely with faculty members to develop an educational plan.