Fourth year rotations should include either a medicine sub-internship or the MICU rotation. Elective time can be used to explore other interests. Pursuit of unique community-related service or research activities may be helpful in applying to some family practice residencies. The quality and teaching commitment of program faculty 3. Family medicine, along with the other primary care disciplines, is receiving greater emphasis as health care delivery shifts toward managed care models.
Family medicine provides care across all age ranges and to both genders.
The primary focus of care in family medicine is in the ambulatory setting and may include the extensive performance of ambulatory procedures and the provision of behavioral and health educational counseling services. The pace of contemporary ambulatory primary care practice is quite intense and family physicians must be comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and clinical uncertainty. Family practice residencies are three years in duration. The residency training usually features intensive inpatient experiences during the first one - two years of training, combined with lighter ambulatory care responsibilities. This pattern shifts during the final one - two years of residency training which, in turn, heavily emphasize intensive ambulatory care experiences.