This is also the year when continuity of care for special populations is introduced. You'll get a chance to follow several nursing home patients at Maryview Nursing Care Center, our teaching nursing home. Our faculty make rounds at the nursing care center every other week. Your month on the Family Medicine in-patient service will find you assuming a supervisory and teaching role for the family medicine first year residents and clerkship students. You'll also get another two months of Internal Medicine, one month of in-patient Pediatrics and one month at the busy pediatric emergency room at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters under the supervision of emergency pediatric faculty physicians.
Behavioral medicine is taught throughout the three years.
Your other mandatory rotations are orthopedics and cardiology. These sub-specialists open their offices to you, offering personal supervision and instruction and allow you to perform many supervised procedures. There are plenty of options for your elective month. If you have a big interest in OB, you can work at one of several remote sites which offer family practice residents training in advanced, complicated obstetrics. Past residents have also done everything from multiple trauma at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital's Level 1 Trauma Center to Geriatrics at a continuing care facility for senior adults.