Focus is on the development of triage skills to discern between patients who can be treated in the outpatient setting and those who need hospital admission. Residents work in outpatient settings with an ENT and ophthalmologist on Valley Medical Center s medical staff, learning approaches to treat common problems of the head and neck. Program Year Two Second-year residents see patients at Valley Family Care two hours a day. They attend a series of workshops in family medicine, behavioral medicine, and practice management specifically directed to issues encountered in the second year of training and begin to treat a small panel of nursing home patients. They head the code team for the cardiopulmonary emergency response team and assume a more active role in critical care patients.
Residents manage patients on the labor ward while on-call one day in four.
Additional skills in outpatient gynecologic antenatal patients are incorporated. This rotation allows residents to get out of the hospital and into organizations that provide medical care in the larger community. A special emphasis is placed on occupational health issues. 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.