Curriculum Overview

Residents will receive the training needed to become community leaders who improve the health of their rural communities from within through experiences with community medicine, population health, quality improvement and patient safety, advocacy, and other scholarly work.

 

Residents will experience a full-scope Family Medicine inpatient service that includes clinical and procedural training in adult and pediatric inpatient care, newborns, obstetrics, and critical care.  While on inpatient family medicine, residents will both provide consultations and consult with specialist services to aid in the treatment of medical conditions and co-morbidities, such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, COPD, and kidney failure. Residents will function as consultants to other physicians and health professionals as they provide care for their continuity patients throughout all three years of training. Additionally, they will provide pre-operative evaluations in the FMP for their continuity patients, assessing the patient’s risk for surgery and providing recommendations to reduce pre-operative risk

 

The integrated behavioral health and outpatient family medicine curricula, as well as weekly didactic conferences include communication with patients and families, including sessions on shared decision making, motivational interviewing, patient education strategies, communicating difficult diagnoses, advance care planning, end-of-life discussions, and modification of risky behavior. Sessions will be interactive, and residents will have the opportunity to role-play and practice.

 

In clinic, the primary care team creates a positive patient care experience by clearly defining roles and responsibilities, coordinating duties, and setting patient care goals through communication and teamwork. This learning environment provides residents with ample opportunities to improve their interpersonal communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals.

 

Planned Clinical Rotations

PGY-I

· Inpatient Medicine

· Emergency Medicine

· Obstetrics

· Women’s Health/Gynecology

· General Surgery

· Musculoskeletal Care

· Pain Management

· Behavioral Health/Substance Use Disorder

· Community Health

· Ambulatory Pediatrics

· Geriatrics/Long Term Care

· Continuity Clinic

PGY-II

· Inpatient Medicine

· Emergency Medicine

· Obstetrics

· Women’s Health/Gynecology

· Musculoskeletal Care

· Behavioral Health/Substance Use Disorder

· Community Health/Health Systems Management

· Inpatient Pediatrics (away rotation)

· Ambulatory Pediatrics

· Geriatrics/Long Term Care

· Hospice

· Electives

· Continuity Clinic

PGY-III

· Inpatient Medicine

· Emergency Medicine

· Obstetrics

· Cardiology

· Ambulatory Subspecialty

· Women’s Health/Gynecology

· Behavioral Health/Substance Use Disorder

· Community Health

· Palliative/Home Health

· Electives

· Continuity Clinic

Potential Electives

· Pulmonary

· Ear, Nose, Throat

· Neurology

· Urology

· Dental

· Wound Care

· Podiatry

· Dermatology

Didactics

One half-day session every week