Curriculum
The Clinic Is the Curriculum
We believe that the best way to learn to practice as a family physician is to BE a family physician. The learning comes from exposure, experience, practice, and continuity with your patients over time. We assign a full panel of patients to each resident when they start, and they carry that panel throughout their three years. Each resident’s schedule is designed to ensure that they have enough consistent time in clinic to build meaningful relationships with their patients and to provide them with compassionate, excellent care.
Train How You Will Practice
Our longitudinal curriculum was one of the first of its kind, and it remains one of the most unique. We created it with the concept of interleaving at its core – the idea that learning is best achieved when the learner alternates topics of study. We took apart our traditional block curriculum that focused on one discipline only, per month, and broke each rotation into smaller pieces, mixed and distributed over time, so that the areas of study alternate throughout each year, and over the three years of residency. We believe that in addition to improving the educational experience, this models how the true family physician practices, holding all the knowledge of how to care for multiple patient populations and acuity settings at the same time.
Medicine Should Be Sustainable
Our mission is to produce skilled family doctors with professional habits and that help them lead long, fulfilling careers. We recognize that practicing family doctors have families, communities, and interests outside of medicine, and that part of residency training is learning to balance the demands of our profession with the other pieces of our lives.
Our residents help us to plan sessions and activities focused on peer support and skills for good health in life and practice. Some of the ways that we have worked to integrate wellness into the educational process are:
