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.
They provide telephone back up for the clinic during lunch and on weekends. The senior class also assumes responsibility for covering VFC obstetrics, inpatients, and admissions on weekends. Regular workshops are targeted toward issues encountered in the third year of training and future practice. Residents learn primary gynecologic procedures, including examinations, for early pregnancy detection, STD management, vaginitis, and contraception counseling. The month is spent at the office of a community gynecologist.