Family Medicine Residency Curriculum
- Year 1
4 weeks – Orientation
4 weeks – Emergency Medicine
8 weeks – Surgery
12 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
4 weeks – Peds Outpatient
8 weeks – Obstetrics - including 4 wks on Labor & Delivery & 4 wks Outpatient Prenatal Care
4 weeks – ICU
4 weeks – Cardiology
2 weeks – Women's Health
2 weeks – Practice Management
- Year 2
8 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
4 weeks – GYN
4 weeks – NICU/Nursery
4 weeks – Sports Medicine
2 weeks – Radiology
4 weeks – ENT
4 weeks – Elective
2 weeks – Community Medicine
4 weeks – Pulmonology
8 weeks – Peds Inpatient
4 weeks – Peds Emergency Medicine
2 weeks – Ophthalmology
2 weeks – Urology
- Year 3
4 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
4 weeks – Infectious Disease
4 weeks – Neurology
4 weeks – Nephrology
4 weeks – Gastroenterology
4 weeks – Hematology/Oncology
4 weeks – Rheumatology
8 weeks – Elective
2 weeks – Community Medicine
4 weeks – Orthopedics
2 weeks – Practice Management
4 weeks – Palliative Care
4 weeks – Dermatology
- Longitudinal - include Geriatrics and Behavioral Science
Family Medicine Residency Conferences
Morning Report:
Residents meet at 7:45 a.m. for a case-based didactic session. The resident presenter leads the group in working through a case selected from the inpatient team or outpatient office.
House Staff Work Rounds:
The clinical chief resident coordinates the team of residents and students assigned to the inpatient family medicine service. During work rounds residents provide clinical evaluation and diagnostic and therapeutic planning for their panel of patients. Consultative services are readily available at Hahnemann University Hospital and our affiliated sites and patient care decisions can be readily reviewed with the attending physician during work rounds or subsequent teaching rounds.
Attending Physician Teaching Rounds:
Inpatient medicine faculty are highly motivated educators who have come to Drexel from a diverse background of clinical education settings. Teaching rounds include bedside and formal didactic sessions.
Daily Noon Conference:
Inpatient noon conference is based on the resident's rotation. Some departments have their own specific noon conferences while others take advantage of the Medicine Noon Conference.
Grand Rounds:
Speakers are selected from Drexel University College of Medicine faculty, Hahnemann University Hospital, and visiting lecturers. Grand rounds are teleconfereced to the Manayunk office site.
Morbidity and Mortality:
M&M conference is held quarterly to review interesting or particularly difficult cases. This is a multidisciplinary conference focusing on appropriate approach, diagnosis, and therapy in these cases. Family medicine residents present this conference with faculty members helping in the review of the case and format of the presentation.
Weekly Conferences:
Weekly family medicine conferences are held on Friday afternoons. Residents are scheduled to attend based on rotation. In addition to didactics and workshops, there is a monthly standing resident meeting with the family medicine program director and faculty, journal club, and Balint group. Once or twice per year a resident retreat is conducted during this time, involving team-building activities and educational sessions.
Scholarly Activity
There are extensive opportunities for family medicine residents to participate in scholarly activity with the Drexel faculty. Our faculty are involved in many different projects including writing of book chapters and journal articles as well as presenting posters or didactic sessions at local, regional, or national conferences. Residents interested in a detailed research project may request to utilize an elective block for research. Residents have the opportunity to publish their research projects or abstracts in the DrexelMed Journal, a graduate medical education journal that highlights the scholarly activity of residents and fellows from the College of Medicine and its affiliates.
Evaluations
Family medicine residents are evaluated and given feedback through multiple mechanisms. At the end of each block, the attending physician with whom they have been working completes an evaluation. In addition, residents are evaluated quarterly by the family medicine faculty who have been supervising them in the Family Medicine Center. Residents are also evaluated twice yearly by the staff in the Family Medicine Center and our patients as part of our 360-degree evaluation process. An in-training exam is given annually.
Residents meet with the program director and faculty at least twice annually.
Residents provide anonymous evaluations of their individual rotations at the conclusion of each rotation and evaluate teaching experiences with the family medicine faculty in the outpatient setting on a quarterly basis.
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