In addition to eight months of general family medicine on our busy family practice inpatient service, you will spend seven months doing intensive care, cardiology including the Coronary Care Unit, two inpatient medicine specialty electives, an emergency rotation, and the opportunity to do more within an elective month.Responsibility for patient care increases from the first to second year. In hospital on call duty is shared with the internal medicine residents. During the first year, family practice residents share call with internal medicine residents covering patients and admitting patients from the emergency room. During the second year medicine electives, family medicine residents take call as the medicine "junior" on call supervising all of the first year medicine residents on call. Supervision includes central venous lines, intubations, difficult patients, and checking out admissions. During the second and third year, family medicine residents take home call for our office patients. This includes handling phone calls and acting as the attending for inpatient service. This includes handling admissions presented from the first year residents. Educational opportunities include conferences on a variety of topics, plus hands on teaching by senior residents in internal medicine. During the internal medicine and family medicine months, many procedures such as Swan Ganz placement, central venous lines, chest tubes, arterial lines, lumbar punctures, pacemakers, paracentesis, and resuscitation are mastered. Third year outpatient rotations include ambulatory training such as allergy and dermatology, urology, ENT, community medicine, practice management and radiology. Three elective months are available for further development of adult care. |
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