Residents are assigned to a ward team, which typically includes two interns, a senior resident, and a Medical Staff Internist. This experience provides excellent exposure to general adult inpatient medicine, complementing and enhancing the skills learned on the Family Medicine rotation. One month is spent working in Pre-Natal Care and Labor and Delivery in St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Two months are spent working with a community surgery group, rotating through all the major hospitals in the Metro East. Residents first assist on all operative procedures and are given increasing responsibility as their rotation progresses.
Residents can also assist with office procedures.
One month of pediatrics inpatient experience is conducted in Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. Family Medicine residents are assigned to a team consisting of a pediatric intern and senior pediatric resident, supervised by a faculty member from the Department of Pediatrics. Residents are responsible for the admission, inpatient care, follow-up planning and discharge of assigned patients. One month is spent in the general pediatric clinic at Scott AFB, including well child visits, acute illnesses, hospital follow-up or long term treatment. During their one month in the NICU, residents learn to resuscitate newborns, to stabilize newborns for transport, and to provide state of the art care of the acutely ill neonate.