Our Curriculum

As a first-year resident you will have 13 rotations of four weeks each:

Introduction to Family Medicine/Advanced Family Medicine
Inpatient Medicine	Emergency Medicine
Inpatient Medicine	Ob/GYN
Inpatient Medicine	OB/GYN
Inpatient Medicine	Pediatrics (Ambulatory)
Cardiology	Surgery
Critical Care	Orthopaedics

Starting the second year, you will begin to experience our p4 project innovation. Our project will test a new way to train family doctors.

During the second and third years, the residents are organized in teams, with pairs of two second- and two third-year residents on a team. The team functions as a group practice allowing better patient access to physicians, eliminating barriers and fostering a multidisciplinary team approach.

The teams are scheduled on a repeating eight-week block format, where one of the residents is on a focused area of concentration for two weeks of that eight-week block. During those two weeks, the resident is totally immersed in that experience. The goal is to have these focused experiences in the outpatient setting and office based.

The areas of concentration allow the resident to individualize their training for their future practice and community. The team provides continuity coverage for the residents' patients while away. Once the two weeks are completed the resident returns to the team and another resident does a two-week focused experience.

Each member of the team thus spends six weeks of the eight weeks in the Continuity of Care Clinic (CCC) and two of the eight weeks on a focused experience. This creates more time for the residents in the Continuity Clinic, allowing the concepts of a medical home, the whole person approach, community context and quality assessment to come to fruition.

Week	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Team A
- Resident 1
- Resident 2
- Resident 3
- Resident 4

Blocked weeks are when the resident does a two-week area of concentration.