Residents work with a local cardiologist in his or her office and follow the cardiologist s inpatients. This includes the management of common cardiac problems as well as interpreting EKGs. Residents learn the multiple aspects of adolescent medicine at the Kent Teen Clinic. This unique program includes a multidisciplinary team of nurse practitioners, health educators, and a community health nurse, as well as an adolescent medicine physician. Residents work with an orthopedist on Valley s medical staff, primarily in his or her office but also at times in the hospital, including first assisting on appropriate cases.
Outpatient care includes casting, splinting, and proficiency in the orthopedic physical exam.
Residents are assigned to a specific surgeon on the staff at Valley Medical Center. Continued surgical assessment and first assistant skills are targeted during this rotation. Added exposure to colorectal problems and experience in colonoscopy is emphasized. Residents attend complicated deliveries and stabilize newborns with supervision by special care nursery staff and teaching by community neonatologists. Residents select various specialties and subspecialties in which additional training is desired.