Curriculum

• Year 1
  

  4 weeks – Orientation
  6 weeks – Emergency Medicine
  8 weeks – Surgery
  12 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
  4 weeks – Peds Outpatient
  8 weeks – Obstetrics
  4 weeks – ICU
  4 weeks – Cardiology
  2 weeks – Women's Health
  

• Year 2
  

  4 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
  4 weeks – GYN
  4 weeks – NICU/Nursery
  4 weeks – Orthopedics
  2 weeks – Radiology
  4 weeks – ENT
  4 weeks – Elective 
  2 weeks – Geriatrics
  4 weeks – Neurology
  4 weeks – Pulmonology
  8 weeks – Peds Inpatient
  4 weeks – Peds Emergency Medicine 
  2 weeks – Ophthalmology
  2 weeks – Urology
  

• Year 3
  

  8 weeks – Family Medicine Inpatient
  4 weeks – Infectious Disease
  4 weeks – Nephrology
  4 weeks – Gastroenterology
  4 weeks – Hematology/Oncology
  4 weeks – Rheumatology
  8 weeks – Elective
  4 weeks – Community Medicine
  4 weeks – Sports Medicine
  2 weeks – Practice Management 
  2 weeks – Geriatrics
  4 weeks – Dermatology

Conferences

Morning Report:
Residents meet at 7:30 AM for a review of new clinical cases admitted to the inpatient Family Medicine Service. Case-based didactic sessions are held at morning report and the clinical chief resident and faculty on the inpatient service supervise selected topics.

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 educational settings. Teaching Rounds include bedside and formal didactic sessions.

Daily Noon Conference:
Residents meet daily for didactic conferences on topics pertinent to the broad range of clinical material on the inpatient service and outpatient setting. Conferences are presented by family medicine faculty, other departmental faculty from Hahnemann, residents and guest lecturers.

Grand Rounds:
Speakers are selected from Drexel University College of Medicine faculty, Hahnemann Hospital, and visiting lecturers.

Mortality and Morbidity:
A monthly conference is held to review interesting or particularly difficult cases. This is a multi-disciplinary conference focusing on appropriate approach, diagnosis, and therapy in these cases.  Residents present this conference with faculty members helping in the review of the case and format of the presentation.

All Day Conference:
Once per block, usually the fourth Friday, residents are relieved of clinical duties for a full day of didactics. In addition to lectures, there is a standing resident meeting with the 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 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.

Evaluations 

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.