Family Medicine Residency
Our Curriculum
The Virginia Tech Carilion Family Medicine Residency program provides a breadth and depth of inpatient and outpatient training that offers residents the opportunity to develop skills needed to practice outpatient or inpatient medicine upon graduation, or to enter a variety of fellowships.
Our weekly academic conferences and workshops are an integral part of our residency training. Several components of the curriculum are taught in a longitudinal fashion: behavioral health, geriatrics, medical informatics, information mastery, population health and practice management.
Our curricular strengths include pediatrics and musculoskeletal medicine, bolstered by our sports medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) tracks. Unique aspects of our curriculum include significant elective time and specific Areas of Interest available for each resident to tailor to his or her future practice goals.
- Outpatient Care
Residents and faculty members' clinical practices are located in one of our two NCQA-recognized Level 3 patient-centered medical home offices. At each center, we have a social worker, licensed professional counselor, psychologist, dietitian, on-site pharmacists and highly skilled nurses, many of whom are involved in research or specialty procedures.
Each center is equipped with on-site laboratory services, OB ultrasound, minor procedure rooms and an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) room. Each office and exam room has a computer for access to our electronic medical record system (Epic), digitized hospital X-rays and all library services.
We offer family-centered prenatal care, minor surgery and training in procedures such as colposcopy and ultrasonography. We host several specialty clinics on-site: Sports Medicine clinic, Gynecology clinic, OMM clinics and clinics for skin and joint procedures.
- Inpatient Care
Our residents train at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Carilion Children’s Hospital and the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC).
- Lifestyle Medicine
We have integrated the Lifestyle Medicine residency curriculum into our overall residency curriculum as the Lifestyle Medicine (LM) track. All residents in the program have access to the content, and those who chose to join the LM track will be eligible to sit for the LM boards upon completion of residency. We have a dedicated core group of faculty who are trained in LM and are engaged in teaching, and all of our faculty participate in incorporating LM as part of clinic precepting. Residents on the LM track will have dedicated time while on the LM elective to complete their requirements.
Electives
| PGY1 CORE ROTATIONS | PGY2 CORE ROTATIONS | PGY3 CORE ROTATIONS |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Care Consults | Behavioral Medicine | Adolescent Medicine |
| Emergency Medicine | Community Medicine | Family Medicine Inpatient Service |
| Family Medicine Inpatient Service | Dermatology | Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic |
| Fundamentals of Family Medicine | Emergency Medicine | Gynecology |
| Internal Medicine at Roanoke Memorial Hospital | Family Medicine Inpatient Service | Night Float on Family Medicine Inpatient Service |
| Night Float on Family Medicine Inpatient Service | Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic | Pediatrics Emergency Medicine |
| Newborn Nursery | Night Float on Family Medicine Inpatient Service | Pediatrics Outpatient Clinic |
| Obstetrics | Orthopedics | Rheumatology |
| Pediatrics Inpatient Service | Pediatrics Inpatient Service | |
| Pediatrics Outpatient Clinic | Pediatrics Outpatient Clinic | |
| Psychiatry at the Salem VAMC | Practice Management | |
| Sports Medicine |
- Subspecialty Selectives
Adolescent Medicine Infectious Disease Pediatric Endocrinology Cardiology - Inpatient Internal Medicine Wards Pediatric GI Cardiology - Outpatient Nephrology Pediatric Pulmonology Endocrinology Neurology Podiatry Gastroenterology - Inpatient Ophthalmology Pulmonology Gastroenterology - Outpatient Otolaryngology Geriatrics Pediatric Cardiology - Electives
Addiction Medicine Palliative Care Advanced OB Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Allergy Point-of-Care Ultrasound Chronic Disease Management Radiology Community Care Rural Medicine Hospitalist Scholarly Activity Informatics Sports Medicine ICU Urgent Care - PGY1 Selectives
Cardiology at the Salem VAMC Nephrology at the Salem VAMC Pulmonology at the Salem VAMC Gastroenterology at the Salem VAMC Outpatient Surgery at the Salem VAMC Infectious Disease at the Salem VAMC Pain Management at the Salem VAMC
Didactic Sessions
Each Wednesday afternoon, FM residents and faculty gather for group conferences and workshops. Rotating topics enhance the curriculum and provide evidence-based approaches to commonly seen issues in FM. The backbone of the conference curriculum is based on the content of in-training and board exams. Each block integrates the following into the teaching curriculum:
- Journal club
- Principles of research and practice improvement
- Dedicated pharmacology teaching
- Osteopathic manipulative workshops
- Morbidity and mortality (M&M) conference
- Billing and coding practice
- Professional development
- EMR optimization tips
- Procedures
- Ultrasound workshops
- Board review practice
The teaching forums are interactive and many sessions are hands-on.
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