p4 Selected Residency: What that means (Not 4 years!)

The focus of our p4 project is to change the learning format so that residents spend more time in the Linn Community Care clinics where our physicians serve a large volume of patients. We employ strategies to emulate private practice in the Linn Community Care clinics to prepare our residents to confidently practice the New Model of Care once they graduate.

Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation being selected as a p4 innovator allows our Program significant latitude to try new approaches to residency training.  The Cedar Rapids project allows residents to tailor their training to prepare them to practice in their future community and confidently meet the community needs.  

The first-year curriculum provides inpatient experience in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, as well as training in Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Cardiology and Intensive Care management. The community preceptors have been teaching for many years and will help you focus on what is important for future family physicians to know. 

Our excellent instructors and extensive experience in Medical Informatics will immerse you in Evidence-Based Medicine while providing you the necessary resources to find, evaluate and understand the latest evidence. You will soon be talking in terms of “number need to treat” and “pre-test probability.” 

Coupling the curriculum with our robust electronic medical record at the Linn Community Care clinics will give you experience in applying the informatics skills to your patient populations and opportunities to manage their problems using evidenced-based quality improvement techniques such as academic detailing and systematic change.

The goal of p4 is to “Prepare the Personal Physician for Practice,” and that is exactly what our curriculum will do for you! Visit http://www.transformed.com/p4.cfm for more information about the p4 project and see the detailed curriculum charts at the end of the brochure for further information