Residents develop and complete a community-based project during their training. Residents are assigned nursing home, extended-living care facility, and homebound patients that they follow throughout the second and third year of training. This experience, paired with seminars and conferences, provides excellent skills in the care of geriatric and homebound patients. Balint Group, which focuses on the doctor-patient relationship, occurs throughout the second year of training. Evaluation and Advising Residents are assigned advisors based on teams.
Advisors assist residents as they progress through the training program.
This assistance is directed by residents' requests, evaluations from faculty who have provided training to the residents, and through examination of performance on in-service training examinations. Residents meet quarterly with their advisors to discuss their performance. Residents also discuss elective plans and goals with their advisors. At the end of each rotation, residents are provided the opportunity to evaluate the rotation and the faculty who provided teaching during the rotation. Similarly, residents are evaluated by the faculty for the rotation.