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Educational Activities
The curriculum is structured to fulfill all the requirements set by the AOA for the Osteopathic Traditional Rotating Internship and by the ACGME for a Transitional Year Residency. Each rotation is one month long.
Variety of Required and Elective Rotations
- The General Medicine Teaching Service
- The Internal Medicine Subspecialties
- Critical Care Rotation
- Emergency Medicine
- Geriatrics
- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Women's Health
See Rotations for detailed information about each of the following specialty areas.
To prepare our residents to enter their chosen specialty or assist them in deciding on a field of study, our program uses a wide variety of teaching tools. These include excellent clinical rotations, a structured curriculum of didactic conferences, workshops and on-line, self directed learning as well as simulation training.
Our Educational Activities
Well structured clinical rotations at the hospital, our ambulatory clinic and other ambulatory practices
Didactic conferences
Department of Medicine
- Weekly Medical Grand Rounds
- Noon Case Report – three times-a-week
- Monthly Journal Club/Evidence-based Medicine Conference
- Daily Subspecialty Conferences
- Twice monthly Board Review
- Morbidity and Mortality Review
- High Value Cost Effective Curriculum
- Bi-monthly ACGME Core Competency Conferences
- Acute Care Conferences during the month of July
- Ambulatory Care Conferences
- Monthly Pharmacy Conferences
- Pain Management
- Basics of Medical Billing and Coding
- Team STEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) training
Departments of Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Surgery
- Education Day weekly – case based discussions, Grand Rounds, topic review, journal club, textbook review, morbidity and mortality review
Department of Pediatrics
- Daily topic discussions
- Participation in Family Medicine Grand Rounds
Monthly Osteopathic Conferences
Simulation
- Procedural workshop
- Mock codes
- Mock rapid response team scenarios
- "How to give an effective ‘hand-off'" – part of program orientation
- "How to search the medical literature" – part of program orientation
Small group discussions & workshops
- Weekly case-based discussions using Yale modules of ambulatory topics
- Case-based discussions as part of teaching rounds
On-line learning
- Hopkins modules on ambulatory topics
- Patient safety modules
- CITI training- On-line research education program
Participation in quality improvement projects, research & hospital committee membership
- Residents and faculty work on projects to improve care delivery in the inpatient and outpatient setting
The Clinical Experience
- Residents are the primary care physicians for their panel of patients over their year of training
- Ages range from 18 to geriatric
- Spectrum of visits
- Health maintenance and promotion – a major emphasis
- Acute episodic illnesses
- Chronic illness management
- Pre-operative evaluations
The Teaching Experience
- Excellent faculty-to-resident ratio to promote timely feedback, discussion and review of cases
- Weekly review of case-based discussion of common ambulatory problems based on the Yale ambulatory conference series – 40 ambulatory topics reviewed
- On site pharmacist faculty member from Wilkes Nesbitt College of Pharmacy to provide resident teaching and provide patient consultation and education
- Twenty referral specialty clinics to provide teaching and to assist in patient management
- Opportunity to participate in quality improvement projects
- Opportunity to work with nurse practitioners, physician assistants and case managers
Other Ambulatory Training Sites
Residents have the opportunity to rotate in a variety of teaching faculty offices and specialized centers.Elective rotations include:
- Behavioral Health
- Dermatology office
- ENT office
- Ophthalmology office
- Orthopedic office
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Sleep Center
- Women's Health Clinic
