This month provides excellent exposure to emergency medicine and enhances the resident's skill dealing with trauma, life support and general medicine. Residents spend two months on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service at BSA's Baptist Campus. They are responsible for all patients admitted to the service and are present for direct supervision of the intern and medical students on the service. In addition, they spend several hours each day in the Department's clinic, Center for Family Medicine, caring for their panel of ambulatory patients. On this rotation residents spend one month caring for severely ill patients at Veterans Administration Hospital.
Residents work with the physician in charge and with other medical specialists.
The resident will work directly with the specialist during rounds as well as performing and assisting in procedures which are specific to the specialty which was chosen. Residents spend one month in the outpatient gynecology clinics at Northwest Texas Hospital. They learn a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic skills related to gynecologic disorders. A portion of this experience includes participation in colposcopy, sonography and minor gynecologic surgical procedures. Residents spend one month with an orthopedic group at a nearby ambulatory care clinic.