Residents become acquainted with services available for frail elderly, gain skills in home visits, and observe rehabilitative and adult day health programs. There are no call responsibilities this month. A series of tutorials over two weeks are devoted to learning about and applying evidence based medicine concepts. This three-month educational experience focuses on basic skills necessary for outpatient family practice. During the second and third years, residents have responsibility for following their own OB patients to delivery and for covering the overall OB practice at night on a rotating basis.
Call is approximately every sixth night from home.
Residents participate in morning report and in weekly conferences in the Family Health Center. This curriculum, which occurs during the block months, serves to integrate components of Family Life Cycle education. This time is allotted for formally structured didactic sessions and supervised family interviews. Two months are spent as the junior resident responsible for supervision of first-year residents and medical students on the team. Call is every fourth night.