There is a two-year rotating academic curriculum. The main half-day didactics are scheduled every Wednesday, protected-time for PGY2s and PGY3s. Additionally, Morning Report on Tuesdays as well as Women’s Health Conference on Thursdays morning. During the internship (PGY1), you will attend the educational activities of the service you are rotating on (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN), and have some activities in family medicine during family medicine experience blocks and Wednesday intern hour.
All residents will graduate with at least 30 non-continuity deliveries and we aim for 5 continuity deliveries that you will manage with a partner. Deliveries are overseen by the obstetrics chief residents and attendings, and our midwife group. Because we do not have a faculty member who is a family physician managing deliveries, a resident cannot graduate with the ability to immediately do independent low risk obstetrics. However, with our high-quality basic obstetrics training and availability of electives to expand OB experience and number of deliveries, our residents have been competitive and have been able to enter an obstetrics fellowship.
For those with interest, there are opportunities to assist in operative (Caesarian section) deliveries, especially for continuity patients. Those who wish to be proficient in Cesarean Deliveries will need Fellowship training and can use the residency to become competitive for a fellowship position.
Residents are trained to do a proficient comfortable speculum exam, obtain a Pap test and test for STIs, IUD insertion and removal (Mirena and others, and ParaGard) , Nexplanon insertion and removal, and endometrial biopsy. For those with interest there is opportunity for Colposcopy training.
There is a wide variety of patients on the inpatient service, including patients with COPD exacerbations, Cardiac diagnoses including ACS, CHF exacerbations, GI bleeds. We have the ability to admit pediatric patients and we see healthy newborn patients and postpartum patients.
There are 1-2 junior or senior residents, 2-3 interns, and 1 night resident. Often the team has Acting Interns, PharmD students and rotating international students.
Yes. Junior and Senior residents cover the night service. When there are 3 interns on the Family Medicine Service, you will rotate on night float.
“Family medicine experience” is a professional development time, as well as an opportunity for scholarly work in PGY 2 and quality Improvement (QI) initiatives in PGY3. Residents work as a class and in small groups during this time. You will still see their continuity patients in the family medicine center and generally have time for some social and wellness activity.
There are many options for elective time, depending upon your personal interests and long-term career goals. Residents have spent time with medicine and pediatric specialty services, emergency care services, including Urgent Care, Women Health, and Sports Medicine electives. Residents generally will meet their elective needs within the University Hospital system, but may apply for an away elective consistent with the individualized learning plan.
Yes, we do not currently have an active international partner, but with interest and an appropriate supervisor and international elective may be possible.
Yes. Every year each resident is granted an educational stipend based on PGY level and meeting professionalism milestones which include adequate attendance at didactics, hours reporting and punctuality. Funding for conferences where a resident is presenting may be available.
