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Curriculum

  First year
  Obstetrics 2 months
  Pediatrics 2 months
  ER 1 month
  Surgery 2 months
  Night Float 1 1/2 months
  OB Float 1 month
  Musculoskeletal 1 month
  Family Medicine 1 1/2 months
  Second year
  Intensive Care Unit 1 1/2 months
  Family Medicine 1 1/2 months
  Intensive Care Unit Float 1 1/2 months
  Emergency Room 1 month
  Nursery-NICU 1 month
  Community Medicine /Family Pscyh & Violence 1 month
  EUOO (Otolaryngology, Opthalmology, Urlogy, Oral) 1 month
  Cardiology 1 month
  Practice Management 1 month
  Sub-Specialties (Dermatology, Colorectal, GI) 1 1/2 months
  Third Year
  Musculoskeletal 1 month
  Family Medicine 3 months
  Gynecology 1 month
  Geriatrics 1 month
  Pediatrics 1 month
  Electives 4 months
  Focused FPC Care 1 month

Night Float: On the PGY1 and PGY2 night float rotations, our residents' only duty is in the hospital from 7PM to 8AM Sunday through Thursday evening. This frees the other PGY2 or PGY3 residents during the week and their weekend call averages one call every four weekends. 
 
Call for Tatem Brown FP and the Family Medicine Center is pooled by PGY-2 and PGY-3 grouping.
 

Conferences: Our “Clinical Inquiry” Program

With the emphasis our program places on learning through evidence, and with the need to focus residents on the long term learning process of physicians, we made a radical change in 2003. We abandoned the traditional "sit and listen" concept of medical training in favor of a participant driven evidence based program. During our academic block, which is held for four hours on Wednesday mornings, PGY1, PGY2, PGY3 residents and faculty have a broad 2 hour discussion of a topic through case-based discussions focusing on the newest evidence balanced with practical applications. The cases are presented a week in advance and then discussion focuses on the evidence discovered by the residents which would drive the clinical decisions. Residents are expected to have researched this in advance during the week and come prepared to present what they have found as well as how they may manage this in their own practices. The group comes to consensus on which pieces of information were most evidence based, and thereby, the topic conclusions. The session frequently ends with a journal club article chosen by a senior resident which highlights one of the specific questions related to the topic.