Emory and Crawford patients are predominantly tertiary referral from throughout the southeast. Throughout the year, the resident maintains a Continuity Clinic at Grady Hospital. Clinic is attended one-half day per week, regardless of the primary hospital assignment. All patients are evaluated by the resident, then presented to one of the general internists who staff the clinic on a full time basis. Residents typically follow about 140 patients, most of whom have initially been seen on the inpatient service Primary Care 2 Designed to prepare the resident to deliver comprehensive primary care.
Emphasis is on cost-effectiveness, preventive medicine, practical skills learning, etc.
Clinical exposure to dermatology, office gynecology, family planning, ophthalmology, ENT, flexible sigmoidoscopy, stress electrocardiography, and continuing through PGY II and III years. Principal emergency facility for Atlanta's 2.5 million residents. Each resident will have one month of elective time, which may be used to augment clinical experience among the medicine subspecialties, or in primary or intensive care.