Curriculum

Your first year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:

• Orientation (1 block)
• Family Medicine Inpatient Service (4 blocks)
• Night Float (0.5 block)
• Pediatrics, Inpatient (2 blocks)
• Obstetrics, Inpatient (2 block)
• Surgery, Inpatient (1 block)
• Newborn, Inpatient (0.5 block)
• Pediatrics, Outpatient (1 block)
• Vacation (1 block divided into two 2-week segments)

Your second year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:

• Family Medicine Inpatient Service (2.5 blocks)
• Night Float (1 block)
• ICU (1 block)
• Pediatric After Hours Clinic and Pediatrics Emergency Medicine (0.5 block)
• Obstetrics, Inpatient (1 block)
• Emergency Medicine/Pediatrics Emergency Medicine (1 block)
• Family Medicine Intensive and Population Health, Outpatient (0.5 block)
• Point of Care Ultrasound (0.5 block)
• Pediatrics, Outpatient (1 block)
• Psychiatry/Addiction Medicine (1 block)
• Geriatrics/Hospice and Palliative Care (1 block)
• Vacation (1 block divided into two 2-week segments)
• Elective (1 block)

Continuity clinic 2-4 half days per week.

Additional innovative curriculum and longitudinal experiences available (see Areas of Concentration):

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training: This is an in-depth immersion into a multidisciplinary approach for institutional improvement. Residents partner with the hospital's Process Excellence Department and participate alongside hospital leadership for Lean-Six Sigma training to become certified as Lean-Six Sigma Green Belts upon completion of the program. This program is offered in the spring to PGY-2 residents (you are excused from rotations during training).

Your third and final year in the Program consists of 13 four-week blocks. They are divided up as follows:

• Family Medicine Inpatient Service (1.5 blocks)
• Night Float (0.5 block)
• Gynecology, Outpatient (1 block)
• Emergency Medicine (1 block)
• Community Medicine (1 block)
• Orthopedics/Sports Medicine (1 block)
• Practice Management (0.5 block)
• Family Medicine Intensive and Population Health, Outpatient (0.5 block)
• Electives (5 blocks)
• Vacation (1 block divided into a one-week and two-week segment)

Continuity clinic 3-4 half days per week.

Additional innovative curriculum and longitudinal experiences available (see Areas of Concentration):

Elective choices:

• Gastroenterology
• Rheumatology
• Endocrinology
• Nephrology
• Cardiology
• Pulmonology
• Infectious Diseases
• Procedures
• Sleep Medicine
• Hematology/Oncology
• Hospice/Palliative Care
• Wound Care
• Podiatry
• Ophthalmology
• Ultrasound
• Research
• Urgent Care
• Hospital Medicine
• Ears, Nose and Throat
• Business of Medicine
• Junior Faculty

Away elective: A one-block away elective may be granted to residents in good academic standing upon discretion from the program. Residents will be responsible for any costs associated with travel and housing for an away elective.

Electives may also include any additional experience on the core rotations as desired in preparation for future practice.