Graduate must understand and be able to skillfully apply knowledge in areas of importance to the future practice of medicine. In order to accomplish our goals for training, we have designed our curriculum to reflect a balance of outpatient and inpatient care. Year One provides the residents with the bulk of their rotations that require inpatient training. Years Two and Three, while emphasizing outpatient training, provide ongoing training in hospital care to ensure continued competence in this setting. Evidence-based medicine is taught as a seminar course from September through June of the second year.
Residents develop and complete a community-based project during their training.
Residents are assigned nursing home, extended-living care facility, and homebound patients that they follow throughout the second and third year of training. This experience, paired with seminars and conferences, provides excellent skills in the care of geriatric and homebound patients. Balint Group, which focuses on the doctor-patient relationship, occurs throughout the second year of training. Evaluation and Advising Residents are assigned advisors based on teams. Advisors assist residents as they progress through the training program.