curriculum
Essential Job Functions of a Family Medicine Resident
The following list includes tasks that are representative of those required of residents in Family Practice in our program. The list is not meant to be all inclusive nor does it constitute all academic performance measures or graduation standards. It does not preclude the residency from temporarily restructuring resident duties as it deems appropriate for residents with acute illness, injury, or other circumstances of a temporary nature.
The resident, without the use of an intermediary, must be able to:
- Take a history and perform a physical examination
- Administer injections and obtain blood samples
- Use sterile technique and universal precautions
- Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Move throughout the clinical site and hospital to address routine and emergent patient care needs
- Deliver a baby and learn to repair an episiotomy
- Assist at operations
- Communicate with patients and staff, verbally and otherwise in a manner that exhibits good professional judgment and good listening skills and is appropriate for the professional setting
- Demonstrates timely, consistent, and reliable follow-up on patient care issues, such as laboratory results, patient phone calls, or other requests
- Retrieve laboratory data through a keyboard and read a computer screen
- Read charts and monitors
- Perform documentation procedures, such as chart dictation and other paperwork, in a timely fashion
- Manage multiple patient care duties at the same time
- Make judgments and decisions regarding complicated, undifferentiated disease presentations in a timely fashion in emergency, ambulatory, and hospital settings
- Demonstrate organizational skills required to eventually care for 10 or more outpatients per half day
- Take call for the practice or service, which requires inpatient admissions and work stretches of up to 24 hours
- Present well organized case presentations to other physicians or supervisors
- Participate in and satisfactorily complete all required rotations in the
curriculum
The Family Medicine Residency Program is designed to provide the individual with training in the following areas:
Clinical Medicine
- The full spectrum and natural history of disease from conception to death.
- The provision of continuing, comprehensive health care to individuals and their families, including acute and chronic illness, emergency care, and rehabilitation.
- The principles of health maintenance and patient education.
- A full range of inpatient and outpatient procedures.
Behavioral Medicine
- The understanding of the psychosocial aspects of patient care and patient advocacy.
- The management of common psychological problems.
- The interactions of family, family systems, and community on the health of a patient.
- The ramifications of the medical/ethical/legal issues in today's society.
- Balancing professional and personal life in the context of the community.
Community Medicine
- Identifying the community and the resources available.
- Working with the underserved communities.
- Partnering with the community resources to identify and assist in intervention for health problems.
- Advocating for patients in the community and society at large.
- Applying the learned principles to communities the graduate will serve in the future.
Team Work
- An understanding of the personal limits of medical knowledge.
- The art of patient referral.
- The guidance of patients through today's complex health care system.
- The team approach to care.
- Effective communication between team members.
Practice Management
- Contract negotiation.
- Finance.
- Office organization including records and scheduling.
- Personnel issues.
- Managed care.
- Coding principles.
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