Curriculum
Highlights
Ambulatory Focus
Our program maximizes time in the ambulatory setting to help prepare our residents for outpatient practice. The ambulatory experience in the office is distributed over 2 1/2 blocks in PGY 1 (plus 1/2 day clinic weekly during out-rotations), 10 blocks in PGY2, and 10 blocks in PGY3. This continuity requirement is separate from all other training experiences and allows our residents to effectively care for our community. Additional time is spent with surgical subspecialties to train in outpatient procedures and understand the perioperative experience. Population management is integrated into patient care throughout the 3-year experience!
Practice Operations
Our curriculum is unique in offering built-in time dedicated to understanding the operational, behind-the-scenes factors that play a crucial role in the care for our patients! This experience includes 1 block in PGY 1 and a 1/2 block in PGY 3. Activities are centered around 1:1 conversations with ancillary services and staff members as well as other activities to help residents as they move “from residency to reality.” The overall goal is to develop knowledge and skills necessary to manage various components of managing a practice that include organization, administration, billing/coding, communication, and patient care aspects. In addition, the curriculum includes financial information for the residents in order to assure they will achieve professional success.
Community Medicine
Care for our community is our top priority! Our residents are familiarized with the role of private enterprise, non-profit organizations, and government in modern health care. In addition, our residents learn how medicine, government and the community can work together to provide health care. The community medicine curriculum emphasizes the use of local community resources in order to provide optimal patient care along with some experiential components. Our residents work closely with the Wellness on Wheels mobile medicine program in understanding the process of performing a needs assessment and implementing changes to address gaps in care.
Osteopathic Medicine
Our foundation is in osteopathic medicine, and we have been practicing it for over 40 years! Our program is affiliated with one of the largest osteopathic training sites in the United States. Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP) and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) are taught in the hospital setting, ambulatory clinic, and through didactics with a monthly OMM lab, Osteopathic Critical Journal Review, Osteopathic Cases, and other topic directed presentations. OMM lab is focused on a rotating 2 year curriculum. There are also joint OMT labs with other residency programs including OB/GYN and general surgery. OMT is integrated throughout our day-to-day clinic, and we always have an osteopathic attending who is available to oversee and assist with treatments when needed.
BLOCK SCHEDULES
More on our curriculum:
Emergency Medicine experiences are spread out over three months. There will be adequate training for a wide variety of undifferentiated, acutely-ill emergency issues in the traditional ER (both community and pediatric hospitals), as well as through the ER Fast Track.
Family Practice rotations provide an ambulatory experience in the Family Practice Center throughout the 3 years spent with our program. This continuity requirement is separate from all other training experiences and we do our best to simulate real world practice so that our trainees are equipped with a well-rounded skill set to enter any practice style after graduation!
Internal Medicine experiences are spread out over a total of six months during this 3-year program. A mix of hospital-based and ambulatory experiences provide cognitive and procedure-oriented options.
Obstetrics and Gynecology is built in over three months. Office gynecology is stressed and experience enhanced through the Women's Health Clinic at Doctors Hospital during PGY 2. Additional OB experience is through Grant Medical Center during PGY 1.
Pediatrics experiences are distributed through continuity clinic as well as specific months for rotations. Training sites are affiliated with renowned Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) and include hospital-based clinic and private offices for ambulatory experience, as well as time spent in the emergency department and on the infectious disease service at NCH. in addition to this, our residents train in the newborn nursery at Doctors Hospital.
Surgical rotations are distributed over four months. The focus is directed towards orthopedics, urology, ophthalmology, and otorhinolaryngology, as they apply to ambulatory patients.