They share teaching responsibility for lower level residents with the faculty preceptors. The third year resident works in various Health Department clinics in the community including Family Planning, STD and Maternity. Another part of this rotation involves specific activities at a local high school. Residents attend therapy groups with students, provide care to students in the Wellness Center and act as team physician for school football and basketball games. This rotation at ACH provides more experience with outpatient childhood illnesses and problems.
Residents also learn the management of emergent pediatric problems.
The resident builds on earlier orthopedic skills in this rotation through hand and sports medicine clinics. Ophthalmology Family Medicine residents develop skills in how to approach and manage ophthalmologic problems as well as perform ophthalmologic examinations. The resident will develop skills in the examination and management of common ENT problems. Residents will also learn how to detect head and neck tumors. Urology Evaluation and management of common urological conditions in the outpatient setting are learned.