PGY3 residents will complete their training by rotating through sub-specialty care clinics to include traveling outside of WAMC during the trauma rotation.
Third Year Curriculum
The following is a description of the Family Medicine Third-Year Curriculum:
- ENT Clinic (2 week block)
- FM Clinic (4 week block)
- Family Medicine Inpatient Team (4 week block)
- Gynecology (4 week block)
- Neurology (2 week block)
- Operational Medicine (2 week block)
- Ophthalmology (2 week block)
- Sports Medicine (2 week block)
- Transition to Practice (2 week block)
- Trauma (4 week block)
- Urology (2 week block)
- Electives (14 weeks, broken into 2 or 4 week blocks)
- Medicine Selective (Cardiology, Endocrinology, Allergy, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Infectious Disease, Pulmonology, Rheumatology or Heme/Onc)
- (8 weeks, broken into 2 or 4 week blocks)
In addition to these rotations, the Family Medicine third-year resident (R-3) has the following responsibilities:
- Three to four 1/2 days each week in the Family Medicine Clinic caring for his/her assigned panel of 250 patients (continuity clinic);
- Daily checking his/her e-mail and answering telephone consultations from his/her patients;
- Daily team huddle with Continuity Care Team
- 90 minutes every other week in the Behavioral Health/Balint Year Group;
- Attending Family Medicine Morning Report (See Table 1.1 for rotations this is required)
- 4 hours each week in the Academic Half Day Lecture Series;
- See enough FM Clinic outpatient visits to obtain 1650 total visits by graduation.
- Maintaining BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, ATLS, and ALSO certifications
- Giving three lecture during Academic Half Day
- Participate in 1 Community Health Project;
- Provide longitudinal care for two nursing home patient at the VA hospital with monthly visits
- Complete two home visits (at least one must be geriatric)
- Two continuity OB patients will be added to the resident’s panel each month. The resident will provide all prenatal care, deliver, and follow post-partum.
- Complete 10 points worth of scholarly activities
- Two half days of video clinic per year
- Two Counseling Clinics per year
- One continuity procedure clinic every other month
The Family Medicine R-3 has an assigned Family Medicine advisor who monitors his/her progress through the different rotations and meets with him/her on at least a monthly basis. The R-3 receives a written evaluation at the end of each rotation, each quarter, and at the end of the academic year.