Each track offers unique training opportunities, with the core teaching program providing the links between tracks. Rotations requirements are the same between tracks, although sites may differ. Continuity of Care Clinic Central to each resident's education, weekly half day sessions at one of the three clinical FP sites allow the resident to work with an individual panel of patients over the full three year program. Starting with one half day per week in the first year and building to three half-days per week in the third, the resident will have the opportunity to follow patients through a broad range of acute and chronic medical problems, family developments, and social and community challenges. The residency program reflects the belief that just as individuals are seen in the context of their families families should be seen in the context of their communities.
Residents spend a total of three months block time over thre years in community medicine.
The Family Care Center, located in downtown Brookln is the community-based health center at which resident see their own panel of patients. The Family Care Center, located in downtown Brooklyn. Residents have their patient panels at either see their own panel of patients.