DHFM Longitudinal Curricula

 

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Residents rotate through multiple longitudinal clinics to reinforce clinical skills and knowledge in key areas. Learn more below!

  • Pediatrics

  • Nursing Home

  • Sports Medicine

  • Addiction Medicine

  • Adult OMT

  • Pediatric OMT

  • Practice Management and Quality Improvement

Pediatrics

Supported by Frances Comer, DO (Board Certified Pediatrician)

Residents work 1:1 with Dr. Comer seeing exclusively pediatric patients within the DHFP clinic. This supplements the pediatrics routinely seen within their continuity clinic panels.

Highlights include establishing best practices for well child checks, developing skills in breastfeeding medicine, diagnosing and managing ADHD, and coordinating medical care for complex pediatric patients.

Nursing Home

Supported by Kevin Sellers, DO

Locations: Pickaway Manor & Logan Elm

Residents work in teams with Dr. Sellers on a monthly basis seeing patients within the nursing home. Learning to navigate the spectrum of healthcare beyond the office and hospital setting.

Sports Medicine

Supported by Justin Stumph, DO

Residents work 1:1 with Dr. Stumph in our Sports Medicine clinic on Wednesday mornings. All non-operative orthopedic conditions are internally referred to this clinic to help our residents build a strong foundation in musculoskeletal medicine. Residents are trained to use our ultrasound machine for diagnostics and therapeutic injections.  

Addiction medicine

Supported by Haileigh Ross, DO and Megan Zaworski, DO 

A weekly clinic supported by faculty from the OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Patients within our family practice center can be referred to this internal clinic to keep all of their healthcare needs centralized in one office. Residents work 1:1 with this team where they learn key skills in addressing substance use disorders. Highlights include diagnosis, motivational interviewing, harm reduction and medication assistance treatment.  

Adult OMT

Supported by Andrew Eilerman, DO FACOFP, Matthew Johnston, DO and Marcia Jacobs, DO 

OMT is offered routinely in our family practice clinic, but to improve educational opportunities, we now schedule residents to work 1:1 with dedicated faculty in a dedicated OMT clinic. This provides residents with the ability to apply their hands-on skills under the supervision of experienced osteopathic faculty. This focused learning provides novice learners with support to grow in their skills and experienced learners with more advanced techniques and OPP/OMT considerations for complex conditions.

Pediatric OMT 

Supported by Frances Comer, DO 

This is a specialty pediatric OMT clinic that receives referrals from other physicians around Ohio. Residents will practice 1:1 with Dr. Comer to treat patients of all ages, infants to young adults. Common reasons for patients to be referred are infants with poor latch, torticollis, and/or plagiocephaly and adolescents with sports injuries, back pain, headaches, or other chronic musculoskeletal conditions.  

Practice Management and Quality Improvement  

Supported by Matthew Johnston, DO and Carrie Gray, DO 

Practice Management: Dr. Johnston came to our residency with years of private practice experience and is our current medical director. He provides longitudinal education on various topics to help residents succeed in real-world practice such as balancing efficiency and high-quality care, billing, coding, and utilization of AI.

Quality Improvement: Dr. Gray oversees an organized QI curriculum that teaches the necessary skills to implement and measure a QI project. All PGY 2 and 3 residents work in groups QI projects focused on key HEDIS measures. Examples include breast cancer screening, colon cancer screening, and diabetes A1c control. Residents have protected time to work together to advance their QI projects. At the end of the academic year, QI groups present their findings at a regional conference.