This month provides excellent exposure to emergency medicine and enhances the resident's skills dealing with trauma, life support and general medicine. One month is spent in general and specialty pediatric clinics, including well child visits, acute illnesses, hospital follow-up or long term treatment. Residents will work with pediatric nurse practitioners under the supervision of a pediatric attending physician. Residents spend one month on a rural rotation at a selected rural community. Presently the rural rotation is located in Borger, Texas.
Residents also work with the community hospital, taking call.
This is an opportunity for each resident to experience medicine as practiced in a rural setting. Residents spend one month with a local occupational medicine specialist, learning how to diagnose and treat common occupational injuries. Residents spend two months on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service, supervising the junior residents and medical students on the service and assuring a high level of patient care and instruction are maintained. While on this service, residents are also responsible for maintaining contact with the patients' primary physician and for rounding on Family Medicine patients who may be admitted to other hospital services for specialized care. They provide regular miniconferences, journal articles and case presentations.