Curriculum
The curriculum is designed to teach skills needed to practice Family Medicine in any setting while allowing enough flexibility and elective time for pursuit of individual interests.
Post-Graduate Year 1
- Family Medicine Center/Community Medicine (4 weeks – one to two half days/week)
- Orientation, BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP (the week prior to July 1)
- Orientation/Family Medicine Hospital Service (2-3 weeks)
- Family Medicine Hospital Service (13 weeks)
(includes 1 week during holiday schedule*) - OB/Peri I (4 weeks)
- General Surgery (4 weeks)
- GYN (4 weeks)
- Outpatient Pediatrics (4 weeks)
- Pediatric Wards at Norton Children’s Hospital (4 weeks)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Norton Children’s Hospital (4 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine and Night Float (4 weeks)
- Behavorial Health/Substance Abuse (2 weeks)
- Pain Management (2 weeks)
- Vacation taken one week at a time during certain rotations (4 weeks)
(includes one week during the holiday schedule*)
Post-Graduate Year 2
- Family Medicine Center (4 weeks – two to three half days/week)
- Family Medicine Hospital Service Chief of Service (5 weeks)
(includes 1 week during holiday schedule)
- Orthopedics/Sports Medicine Outpatient (4 weeks)
- Cardiology I: Inpatient (4 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine and Night Float (12 weeks)
- Outpatient Pediatrics (4 weeks)
- Ophthalmology (2 weeks)
- Urology (2 weeks)
- Electives (8 weeks)
- Inpatient Pulmonary, includes critical care (4 weeks)
- Radiology (2 weeks)
- ATLS (optional)
- Conference time taken in any combination of 5 days (1 week)
- Vacation taken one week at a time during certain rotations (4 weeks)
(includes 1 week during the holiday schedule*)
Post-Graduate Year 3
- Family Medicine Center (three to four half days/week)
- Family Medicine Hospital Chief of Service (8 weeks)
- Cardiology II: Outpatient (2 weeks)
- Psychiatry (Required) (2 weeks)
- Rheumatology (Required) (2 weeks)
- Dermatology (Required) (2 weeks)
- Orthopedics (4 weeks)
- Outpatient Neurology (2 weeks)
- Electives (16 weeks)
- OB/Peri II (4 weeks)
- Geriatrics (4 weeks)
- Family Medicine Outpatient (1 week)
(during holiday schedule) - Nephrology (2 weeks)
- Podiatry (2 weeks)
- ATLS (optional)
- Conference time taken in any combination of days (1 week)
- Vacation taken one week at a time during certain rotations (4 weeks)
(includes 1 week during the holiday schedule*)
* The holiday schedule allows the residents to work in shifts during the last two weeks of December for half the time and take vacation the other half.
* Didactics 5 – 6 hours/week, usually 1.5 hours on Tuesday and .5 hours on Wednesday & Thursday mornings and 3-4 hours on Friday afternoon.
Call Schedule
Post-Graduate Year 1
Residents are on call all weekends (with every Wednesday off) during the 3 months (generally nonconsecutive) of inpatient service. For the majority of other rotations, residents average call 2 weekends out of 4, from July to March with no weekend call thereafter on non inpatient service rotations.
Post-Graduate Year 2
During the month of inpatient service, residents are on call 2 out of 4 weekends, and average 1 out of 10 weekend calls on rotations other than inpatient service and night float.
Post-Graduate Year 3
During the 2 months of inpatient service, residents take weekend calls 2 out of 4 weekends and average 1 out of 24 weekend calls on rotations from July to March other than inpatient service.
*Any Nightfloat is 5 out of 7 days each week for the rotation
*All call schedules precluding extenuating circumstances