Curriculum

Osteopathic Curriculum:
OMT clinic weekly. Residents rotate through this experience to have dedicated outpatient time for OMT.
Monthly OPTI lectures with all osteopathic residents in the Lehigh Valley.
Osteopathic lectures embedded into academic day schedule for both osteopathic and allopathic residents.

Community Medicine:
Two weeks of community medicine rotation in the intern year with multiple opportunities throughout the three years of residency to serve the community through organizations like the local Hispanic Center, New Bethany Ministry, Homeless Shelter, health career days at local elementary, middle, and high schools.

Nursing Home:
Monthly nursing home rounds with longitudinal care for patients under the supervision of our Senior Care Department.

Home Visits:
Caring for our patients right in their home environment, our residents are able to develop their medical skills as they provide individualized care to patients in their homes, while fostering stronger community relationships and understanding.

International Medicine:
Enhance your residency training by gaining direct exposure to global healthcare systems while cultivating cultural competency through our international medicine rotation. Our residency partnership with St. Luke’s International Medicine team to care for patient in Cameroon with medical mission trip organized yearly.

Practice Management:
Our practice management curriculum is conducted over 3 years of training. Residents are first exposed during their orientation block with a billing and coding workshop that helps set the foundation for clinical practice. During the PGY-2 year, residents spend 4 weeks on Introduction to Health Care Systems which builds on their billing and coding knowledge. Resident specific data is reviewed such as patient panel demographics, referral rates and introduction of value-based metrics. In their final year, residents spend another 4 weeks on an outpatient ambulatory rotation where chart audits are performed, discussion of billing and how it relates to RVUs and how that impacts reimbursement. Real time billing and coding feedback is incorporated into all precepting sessions throughout all training years. We believe that the family medicine practice environment can be the curriculum to teach residents how to deliver healthcare effectively.

Beginning in the PGY-2 year, residents embrace the role of teacher. We are a clerkship site for the Lehigh Valley’s only medical school campus as well as accept visiting medical students. Our residents participate in advancement workshops to help prepare and guide them to become clinical bedside teachers in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Skill sets develop and evolve, residents learn how to give and receive feedback, which we value as an essential and continual part of teaching and learning.