Graduates must understand and be able to skillfully apply knowledge in areas of importance to the future practice of medicine. In order to accomplish our goals for training, we have designed our curriculum to reflect a balance of outpatient and inpatient care. Year One provides the residents with the bulk of their rotations that require inpatient training. Years Two and Three, while emphasizing outpatient training, provide ongoing training in hospital care to ensure continued competence in this setting. Evidence-based medicine is taught as a seminar course from September through June of the second year.
Residents develop and complete a community-based project during their training.
This experience, paired with seminars and conferences, provides excellent skills in the care of geriatric and home-bound patients. Balint Group, which focuses on the doctor-patient relationship, occurs throughout the second year of training. For the 2000-2001 training year, the following four week rotations are completed at the noted year levels. Schedules are reassessed annually and changed where necessary to provide the highest quality of training experience available to residents in the program. Schedules are designed to provide ongoing responsibility to continuity panel patients and ensure excellent exposure to outpatient clinical care.