Educational Program

Our Educational Program has been developed based on the training objectives-based model of curriculum development, which applies a language of professional competencies as its essential design. The curriculum is organized into statements of goals and objectives for rotations where the term goal refers to the purpose and plans of the rotation. The term objective describes what residents will be capable of doing at the end of the learning experiences.

 

Overall Educational Goals and Objectives for the program are distributed to residents and faculty annually.

Competency-based Goals and Objectives for each assignment at each educational level

Regularly Scheduled Didactic Sessions, and Didactic Longitudinal Curriculum

Delineation of resident responsibilities for patient care, progressive responsibility for patient management, and supervision of residents over the continuum of the program.

 

 

See our Rotations Diagram in the next section.

In addition to each resident’s continuity of practice in the Family Medicine Center, certain elements of medical education lend themselves more to a longitudinal format, rather than a block experience.

Among the experiences taught in a longitudinal manner are:

 

Family Medicine Center Sessions 

Nursing Home Care

 

Didactic Conferences:  

Mainly consisting of our daily conference series, an important part of the curriculum, with the conference topics following a 12-month template designed to cover the most crucial topics in family medicine.

 

Balint Group:

The Balint Group consists of a monthly meeting with a structured discussion group in which residents can examine the unique psychosocial issues which arise as a result of the patient-physician relationship. Physician support is modeled and confidentiality is maintained.

 

Family Centered Maternity Care:

Each resident, following completion of her or his obstetrics rotations in the first and second years, builds an ongoing maternity care practice within the Family Medicine Center continuity practice.

 

Procedures:

Our residents are encouraged to learn and practice the breadth of procedures encountered in family medicine. They are required to document specific numbers of all procedures prior to graduation. All procedures are supervised by our attending physicians, with supportive instruction provided beforehand. In addition, we hold workshops for all residents covering core procedures and skills.

 

Night Float activity

In-house calls and at home calls

Elective time (in block rotations)