Electives emphasize individual career choices. Faculty work with residents to customize electives while adhering to Board requirements. The Family Practice Inpatient Service A team of a faculty attending and three residents care for the family practice inpatient service each month. Patients on this service include those assigned to both faculty physicians and first-year residents. Senior residents not on the service round on their own individual patients and report directly to the faculty attending physician.
Residents normally work on the family practice inpatient service for two months of each year.
Noon Conferences Daily noon conferences form the core of didactic training. There are regularly scheduled conferences each month, including behavioral science, orthopedics, dermatology, practice management, obstetrics, case presentations, critical analysis of journal articles, and radiology. Conferences are led by faculty attendings, residents, community volunteer faculty, and visiting lecturers. The curriculum is designed to include a balance of acute patient care, didactic instruction, time for reading and intellectual growth and personal time.