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. The NICU resident also has the opportunity to manage well babies post partum, and perform circumcisions.
Residents learn physical diagnosis techniques, as well as splinting and casting procedures.
Interns have clinic 1 - 2 half days per week at the Family Practice Clinic in Belleville Call is every fourth night on inpatient services, and approx.