A weekly Primary Care conference utilizes a small group, evidence-based medicine approach to identifying clinical questions and developing the means to answering them. Residents are encouraged to be active learners and to develop the skills necessary to continue life-long learning. The rotations of the residency years and their areas of focus are summarized in the table below. The Department of Medicine s Four Year Primary Care Medicine Program combines a specially designed senior year of medical school with the three year Primary Care Residency Track, in order to provide selected Stony Brook Medical students with training for a career in primary care medicine. Participants are eligible for tuition remissions for their senior year, contingent upon completion in good standing of Program Year 1, as well as matching and matriculating in the Stony Brook Medicine Residency Primary Care Track.
Residents round with the attending on all patients.
Stony Brook has a closed faculty system which has important repercussions on the educational format. One attending is responsible not only for all patient care, but also for all educational experiences for each team. This means that as an inpatient team resident you will only have to contact one attending for any patient care concerns. Also, it enables teaching discussion to flow from pathophysiology directly into management planning. Third Tuesday of each month.