Residency ProgramsEmergency Medicine/Family Medicine

Program Year 1

Orientation

Because beginning residency as an intern can be a difficult, we have dedicated the first month of internship to orientation. The purpose of this month is to:

• Immerse interns in ambulatory family medicine in the first month of training.
• Allow residents to become thoroughly comfortable with our office, our staff, our faculty and our residents before going to other services adn rotations.
• Provide interns with an early sense of belonging to the Family Medicine Department.

The components of this orientation are:

• Shadowing to learn flow.
• Meeting the nurses, front desk staff, preceptors, residents, etc.
• Ambulatory didactics.
• Billing and coding.
• EMR training, pearls, practice.
• TransforMed principles.
• Chronic disease management.
• Evidence-based medicine.
• Inpatient orientations.
• "A day in the life of an intern."

Office hours

Interns will have at least seven office-hour sessions in the first month of training.

Thursday morning conference

Every Thursday morning, resident conference is held. Attendance at Thursday morning conference is expected unless a resident is on a rotation from which they cannot be excused. 

Conference consists of a mix of lectures and small-group case-based learning. Residents give various presentations, including morning report and morbidity and mortality report. There are several recurring meetings incorporated into the Thursday conference series:

• First Thursday of the month:  Medical Education Committee.
• Second Thursday of the month: Balint.
• Third Thursday of the month:  Business meeting and osteopathic series.
• Fourth Thursday of the month:  Psychosocial curriculum.
• Once each quarter: Department town meeting.

• If experiencing an emergency, dial 911
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