Health promotion is stressed throughout the Family Practice Center to help residents educate their patients about smoking cessation, weight loss, and reducing unhealthy behaviors. Moonlighting activities outside of the residency program are allowed as long as they do not interfere with performance in the training program. The program prepares physicians in rural and urban settings to cope with their patients' psychosocial, familial, and relational needs. Our faculty members have developed a national reputation for providing outstanding support for residents and students. The Family Practice residency program extends its efforts to provide continuity of care to training in obstetrics.
Residents follow women throughout their pregnancies, deliveries and post-partum care.
They gain valuable experience in the continuing management of maternity patients and in caring for women and their families after the baby's birth. The nutrition curriculum enhances residents' ability to manage and intervene in the nutritional aspects of their patients' medical care. Throughout their tenure, residents gain valuable experience in counseling patients on diet to prevent and treat disease. The increasingly complex medical environment of the new century will require Family Physicians to evaluate and implement new information and monitor on-going care. Geriatrics Caring for the elderly population in both the ambulatory and nursing home settings requires important clinical skills and judgement.