Residents work in interdisciplinary teams to facilitate groups on asthma and diabetes. Specific training by nurse educators, family medicine attendings, and a Pharm. D. fosters resident competence in patient education issues including literacy, adherence to medicine, dietary modification and behavior change. Residents participate in the care of nursing home patients at Cathedral Village, a continuing care community in West Philadelphia. Visits are made throughout the 2 nd and 3 rd year with supervision and on site teaching provided by the Geriatrics faculty.
Experience is obtained both by working with family physicians and in subspecialty clinics.
Three half-day clinics are held at the FPC each week in office procedures, musculoskeletal procedures and gynecologic procedures. A practice management curriculum exists for all three years. Residents participate in monthly practice management meetings that are both topic based and involve looking at FPC data. Third year residents take a week long course on care management. A didactic curriculum is delivered throughout the three years.