Residents are assigned to a ward team which typically includes a Family Medicine faculty member and a Medical Staff Internist. This experience provides excellent exposure to general adult inpatient medicine, complementing and enhancing the skills learned on the Family Medicine rotation. Two months are spent working in Pre-Natal Care and Labor and Delivery in Northwest Texas Hospital. Two months of surgery is spent with Texas Tech University general surgery group rotating through all the major hospitals in Amarillo. Residents first assist on all operative procedures and are given increasing responsibility as their rotation progresses.
Residents can also assist with colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy procedures.
Family Medicine residents are assigned to a team consisting of a pediatric intern and senior pediatric resident, supervised by a faculty member from the Department of Pediatrics. Residents are responsible for the admission, inpatient care, follow-up planning and discharge of assigned patients. In the NICU they learn to resuscitate newborns, to stabilize newborns for transport, and to provide state of the art care of the acutely ill neonate. One month is spent in the Emergency Department at BSA's Baptist Campus under direct supervision of the Emergency Medicine Director. This month provides excellent exposure to emergency medicine and enhances the resident's skill dealing with trauma, life support and general medicine.