Curriculum: PGY III
Family Medicine Inpatient Service
2 blocks
- Responsibility for inpatient
care of FHC and primary care clinic patients
- Supervising resident
for inpatient services to enhance own learning
and teaching skills
- Supervise OB deliveries/availability
for emergent OB cases
- Conducts bedside teaching
rounds for junior residents and medical
students
Electives
3 blocks
- Opportunity to cater to own special interests
- Devoted to specific
interests of residents
- Overseas electives
available through the College of Medicine’s
connections with the World Health Organization
(WHO), the
Network of Community-Oriented Education
Institutions for Health
Sciences (NETWORK) and the World Organization
of National
Colleges and Academies of Family Medicine/General
Practice
(WONCA). Limited to one block rotation
in the third year
Orthopedics
1 block
- Outpatient and inpatient orthopedics
- Experience in management
of acute musculoskeletal injuries and
fractures
- Ample opportunity to assist in
surgery
Dermatology
1 block
- Extensive outpatient dermatology and experience
with dermatological
procedures
- Online dermatology learning
Geriatrics
1 block
- Participate in a multi-disciplinary geriatric
assessment team evaluating
complex health problems in elderly patients
- Work
in a subacute hospital/short-stay unit
for patients in transition from acute care
hospital to home or nursing home care
- American
Geriatrics Society Curriculum
Community Medicine
1 block
- A variety of experiences available, including
rural practice, home health
care, and school-based health clinic
- Participate
in management of hospice patients
- Exposure
to community homeless shelter medical care
and STD clinic in jail setting
- Occupational
medicine—weekly urgent care exposure to occupational
medical cases
- Opportunity to give community
education lectures
ENT/Ophthalmology
1 block
- Office experience with active
ENT and ophthalmology specialists
- May participate in surgery according
to the interest of the resident
Behavioral Medicine
1 block
- Work with both University psychiatrists
on a busy inpatient general
psychiatric service and the FHC behavioral
scientist for outpatient visits
Urology
2 weeks
- Outpatient and inpatient experience
- Opportunity to assist during
surgery
Practice Management
2 weeks
- Expertise coding — highly rated opportunity
for learning a
variety of billing and Medicare compliance
issues
- Exposure to new model of family medicine
- Work with clinic manager
and FHC Operations Committee to
develop a practice plan and participate
in quality review process
- Opportunity to
focus experience in areas of resident interest
University
Family Health Center
- Third-year residents
generally spend four half-days per week
in clinic,
further developing a panel of clinic patients
- Increased
emphasis on office procedures including
training in colposcopy, stress testing, vasectomy, LEEPs, IUDs,
Implanon and minor surgery
Special Interests
(not a rotation)
- Opportunities
available — operative obstetrics training track
with
private OB/GYNS. Arranged on individual
basis, resident can expect
to perform 100-200 C-sections over the
course of the training
- Vacuums/forceps/high
risk OB patients/MFM rotation/hysterectomy,
DC training, colposcopy, and OB ultrasound
certified
Opportunity for one-year academic or urgent care fellowship
*Curriculum is subject to revision by the American Board of Family Medicine and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). |
