Family Medicine Residency
Tracks
We provide various academic tracks and ample elective time to allow our residents the opportunity to individualize educational plans based on future practice goals.
- Various academic tracks: Sports Medicine (fellowship-bound), Lifestyle Medicine (board certification), and Osteopathic Recognition (ACGME certification)
- Options for areas of concentration: Academic Medicine, Geriatrics, Global Health, Hospital Medicine, Leadership, Lifestyle Medicine, Palliative Care, Sports Medicine, Women's Health, and Maternity Care
- Institutional fellowships open to Family Medicine physicians: Addiction Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care, Medical Informatics and Wilderness Medicine
- Tracks
Purpose: to provide robust mentorship and educational experiences to prepare engaged residents for fellowship, for board certification or to meet ACGME requirements.
Engagement: Residents on these tracks are to be self-motivated, actively working to fulfill the requirements.
Commitment:
- Interested residents should declare their interest and meet with a faculty track leader in July and voice full commitment by February of their internship.
- In some circumstances, a highly motivated resident may join later than their internship and create an individualized plan to complete all requirements by the end of their residency.
- Residents may disengage from their track at any time.
Tracks:
- Sports Medicine (fellowship-bound)
- Lifestyle Medicine (board certification)
- Osteopathic Recognition (ACGME certification)
- Areas of Interest
Purpose: to provide opportunities for mentorship, electives and additional educational experiences in specific areas within Family Medicine
Engagement: Residents interested in these areas are encouraged to meet with faculty AOI leaders to review electives, additional educational opportunities and mentorship. These leaders will provide assistance with creating a personalized education plan within these areas that could meet the following goals:
- Building enhanced skill sets within an area
- Help to explore interest in fellowship within an area
- Give experiences to help build CV for fellowship within an area
- Engaged in mentorship
Commitment: level of commitment variable, depending on depth of resident interest
- Faculty Leaders by Area of Interest
- Academic Medicine: Mary Beth Sweet, M.D. and Priscilla Tu, D.O.
- Geriatrics: Brian Unwin, M.D.
- Global Health: Joe Kidd, D.O.
- Hospital Medicine: Braden Gregory, D.O.
- Leadership: Jonathan Stewart, M.D.
- Palliative Care: Christi Stewart, M.D.
- Sports Medicine: Bri Beach, D.O.
- Women’s Health: Karen Perkins, M.D.
- Maternity Care: Dave Gregory, M.D.
Schedule
PGY1
The first year is devoted to in-depth hospital training, where residents receive a broad base of general medical knowledge, rotating through the major services. The residents work in teams supervised by senior residents and faculty members. First-year residents see patients in the Family Medicine center one-half-day per week. They will establish their practice at one our Family Medicine centers and will follow these patients for the entire three years of training.
| Family Medicine Inpatient | 4 weeks + 2 weeks (6 total) |
|---|---|
| Night Float | 2 weeks |
| Fundamentals of Family Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Internal Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Adult Emergency Medicine | 2 weeks |
| ICU | 4 weeks |
| Psychiatry | 4 weeks |
| Obstetrics | 8 weeks |
| Newborn Nursery | 4 weeks |
| Pediatric Inpatient | 4 weeks |
| Pediatric Outpatient | 2 weeks |
| Surgery Inpatient | 4 weeks |
| Surgery Outpatient | 4 weeks |
PGY2
In the second year of training, residents serve as supervising residents on the Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Family Medicine rotations. An increased emphasis is placed on training in ambulatory medicine. Two to three half-days each week are spent in their Family Medicine center. During this time residents will also care for nursing home patients, whom they will follow for two years. Electives are offered in two- or four-week blocks. There are two to six weeks of elective time for PGY2 residents and 18 to 22 weeks of elective time for PGY3 residents. Six of these weeks must be chosen from the list of subspecialty selectives.
| Family Medicine Inpatient | 2 x 4 weeks (8 total) |
|---|---|
| Night Float | 2 x 2 weeks (4 total) |
| Family Medicine Outpatient | 2 weeks + 4 weeks (6 total) |
| Community Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Pediatric Inpatient | 4 weeks |
| Behavioral Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Dermatology | 4 weeks |
| Orthopedics | 2 weeks |
| Practice Management | 2 weeks |
| Sports Medicine | 2 weeks |
| Pediatric Outpatient | 2 weeks |
| Emergency Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Geriatric/Palliative Care | 4 weeks |
| Elective | 2 weeks |
PGY3
During the third year, residents spend most of their time in ambulatory medicine seeing patients two full days per week. They provide care for their own panel of patients at the Family Medicine center and nursing home. They have two weeks of night float rotation, and take a minimal amount of call the rest of the year. Ample elective time is given during this last year of training so that our residents can tailor their education to their future practice needs. Electives are offered in two- or four-week blocks. There are two to six weeks of elective time for PGY2 residents and 18 to 22 weeks of elective time for PGY3 residents. Six of these weeks must be chosen from the list of subspecialty selectives.
| Family Medicine Inpatient | 2 x 4 weeks (8 total) |
|---|---|
| Night Float | 1 week |
| Family Medicine Outpatient | 3 weeks + 4 weeks (7 total) |
| Pediatric Emergency Medicine | 4 weeks |
| Pediatric Outpatient | 2 weeks |
| Gynecology | 4 weeks |
| Rheumatology | 4 weeks |
| Surgical Selectives | 4 weeks |
| IM and Peds Selectives | 10 weeks |
| Electives | 8 weeks |
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