The guiding principle in the development of our curriculum has always been to arrange the best type of training experience needed to train outstanding family physicians. Besides the many resources available at the University we have developed a number of educational opportunities in the community.
Call varies somewhat from rotation to rotation but is approximately every fourth night.
In each setting, residents are members of a team including interns and more senior residents of family practice or internal medicine. Attendings are either family practice faculty or faculty from the Department of Internal Medicine, depending on the rotation. Call varies slightly from one rotation to another but generally involves long call every fourth night, with short call in between, with established maximum numbers of admissions for each. Residents rotate through the Pediatric Wards, Nursery and the Pediatric Acute Care Clinic. In the Pediatric Acute Care Clinic, residents see children with URIs, OM, rashes, injuries, fevers, acute abdomens, etc.