Each resident provides comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated care for his or her own panel of patients and families. Residents and faculty team leaders meet periodically to maximize psychosocial and medical management. Program faculty and approximately 15 board-certified community physicians precept at Creekside. A strength of our program is the extensive clinical and teaching experience of the faculty. Faculty physicians have areas of interest and skill that enable them to supervise residents in obstetrics, psychiatry, geriatrics, ultrasound, colposcopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and vasectomy.
Residents also take an active role in clinic management, both medical and business-related.
Each resident joins a clinic committee that meets monthly. This is one way residents experience the realities of medical practice. More than 100 Park Nicollet Clinic and independent physicians volunteer as teaching faculty at Methodist Hospital and in various clinic settings. Since there are no other full-time residents at Methodist, family practice residents manage a full range of patients and have individual attention from the medical staff. While on the family medicine rotation, the first-year resident and chief resident are responsible for the inpatient service.