Family physician and specialty faculty team with residents to develop the curriculum, which addresses the physical, psychological, social, economic, legal, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of health and illness. The knowledge and skills of evidence-based medicine are taught in seminars for residents in all three years. Family and Community Medicine Grand Rounds are conducted each week are televised live at each FPC to make attendance convenient for all residents in each program track. Journal club is held once a month. Training in geriatrics is accomplished through longitudinal visits to residents of a nearby nursing home, home visits, outpatient visits by elderly patients in the Family Practice Center and geriatric clinics, and caring for patients on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service.
Emphasis is placed on helping the elderly cope with chronic disease.
The key prenatal experience is a longitudinal curriculum throughout the 2nd and 3rd years. Residents attend the Antoine Clinic, about 15 minutes away from the Northwest Community Health Center, the same -day every week or every other week to achieve continuity prenatal care and deliveries. Learning about pharmacotherapy is facilitated by our clinical pharmacologist, who lectures, consults with residents in the Family Practice Centers, and rounds with the inpatient service team.