The resident practices are supervised by full-time faculty who are free from direct patient care responsibilities while precepting residents. A variety of community practice sites are utilized for teaching ambulatory medicine, including urban and suburban practices, solo practioners and groups, and federally funded urban health centers. Physicians who precept residents in their offices are members of the clinical faculty of the Yale Department of Internal Medicine or Pediatrics. The PCC is oriented to continuity of care and dedicated to intensive house officer and medical student teaching. The ambulatory curriculum also emphasizes other areas of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics which are essential to a generalist-physician, such as Geriatrics, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Adolescent and Behavioral Medicine, and related specialties including Neurology, Psychiatry , Gynecology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, and Orthopedics.
Residents also have an opportunity to participate in community projects.
Residents may rotate through a medical clinic established by Program faculty in a homeless shelter or participate in community health promotions and disease prevention projects. The didactic component of the ambulatory curriculum includes weekly clinic conferences that provide practical, management-oriented reviews of common outpatient topics, and a core curriculum during ambulatory block rotations. There are also noon conferences on ambulatory topics that occur as part of the regular year-long curriculum at each hospital. All rights reserved. Comments or suggestions to the site editor .