During one block of electives residents spend one day per week doing colonoscopies and flexible sigmoidoscopies with a colorectal surgeon. Family medicine is consulted on patients in the intensive care unit, psychiatry, and on surgical and medical subspecialty services. Emphasis on inpatient management using the biopsychosocial model and perioperative evaluations. One block as the teaching resident on the family medicine team. Responsibilities include supervision of the first and second year residents and the fourth-year subintern, ER evaluations and daily patient management.
Residents assist the attending in coordinating teaching activities.
Participation in weekly conferences is expected. Call is every 4 th to 6 th night. In addition to the responsibilities described as part of Year 2, residents coordinate the daily morning conference. Residents also attend research conference each week and direct the family practice center's warfarin management program. Call is every 5 th to 6 th night.