Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed to develop our residents’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to work effectively as physicians in a variety of settings. To achieve these goals, our curriculum committee meets monthly to evaluate and refine the educational experience of residents. In addition, each rotation’s curriculum is thoroughly evaluated on a 3 year cycle in order to continuously improve the training we provide.

	Weeks Spent
Rotation	PGY 1	PGY 2	PGY 3
Clinic Outpatient care of continuity clinic patients Daily ambulatory teaching before afternoon clinic session	10	9	9
Electives	0	10	14
Inpatient Family Medicine Services Admit and manage adult patients with a variety of presenting concerns Daily interdisciplinary rounding format Daily morning report educational sessions Weekly radiology rounds Teaching opportunities with medical students	6	8	8
Inpatient Maternal Child Health Service Admit and manage newborns and laboring patients Perform circumcisions Triage obstetrical patients in the obstetric emergency department	2	3	2
Night Float Provide night floor coverage for adult, newborn and obstetric patients on inpatient family medicine services Admit adults to medicine teams Manage after hours office phone calls	2	6	4
Community Health, Addictions, Marginalized Populations (CHAMP) Provide outpatient care and evaluation at the Preble Street Learning Collaborative and the Teen Shelter Participate in group visits for medical treatment of opioid use disorder	2	2	2
Sports Medicine Outpatient experience in our busy sports medicine clinic, including dedicated Resident + Fellows Clinic Urgent care experience seeing orthopedic complaints Optional sideline coverage at athletic events Exposure to physical therapy and athletic training	2	2	2
Inpatient Pediatrics Admit and manage a variety of acute pediatric disorders at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital	4	0	0
Obstetrics Admit, manage, deliver, and perform postpartum rounding on pregnant patients Average 30-40 deliveries over 2 months	8	0	0
Outpatient Pediatrics Outpatient care of pediatric patients at both family medicine and community pediatrics clinics Exposure to pediatric subspecialty care Outpatient pediatric psychiatry experience	2	2	4
Emergency Medicine Shift work at MHMMC’s Emergency Department and Urgent Care Plus facility Great opportunity for procedure exposure	4	0	4
Cardiology Inpatient consults with the cardiology service	2	0	0
Geriatrics Inpatient and outpatient geriatrics consults Nursing home facility rounds with geriatrician Geriatric psychiatry exposure	2	2	0
Gynecology Dedicated time at OBGYN resident clinic Exposure to urogynecology, breast care, pelvic ultrasound	0	2	2
Procedures & Ultrasound Twice weekly procedure clinics in the family medicine office with predominantly GYN procedures (IUD insertion and removal, Nexplanon insertion and removal, endometrial biopsies, colposcopy, transvaginal ultrasound) Twice weekly dermatology clinics (dermoscopy, punch/shave/excision biopsies, ED&C) Perform preoperative assessments in specialty clinic Podiatry and wound care exposure	2	2	0
Orientation Introduction to patient care, various workshops and didactics, team building. This month consistently gets great reviews and is beneficial for “easing” residents into residency. Introduction to caring for patients with homelessness, and the concept of relationship-before-role at Preble Street Learning Collaborative Introduction to tools and strategies to ensure patient safety and improve quality of care	4	0	0
Community & Integrative Medicine Second year residents spend a month together learning about our local community, cross-cultural care, and integrative and alternative medicine practices	0	4	0
Capstone Transition to attending practice	0	0	1

Curriculum | Family Medicine Residency