How well do residents develop procedural skills?
All residents are introduced to the core procedures of family medicine through bimonthly hands-on didactic sessions with our family medicine faculty. All of our inpatient services are covered by faculty alone during these sessions to allow maximum resident attendance. An entire afternoon every other month is devoted to the experiential practice of three different inpatient and outpatient procedures. This provides us a great introduction to each procedure (See one, do one) so that when the opportunity comes again in the office or the hospital, we are ready to jump in! Procedures on the inpatient medicine service (thoracentesis, intubation, central lines, etc.) are done by residents, and precepted by specialists, ER attendings or our own family medicine faculty. Additional experience in any procedure of choice is easy to come by through setting up extra time with one of these attendings. All residents spend one rotation away for a more intense inpatient pediatric experience in South Bend
All residents are introduced to the core procedures of family medicine through bimonthly hands-on didactic sessions with our family medicine faculty. All of our inpatient services are covered by faculty alone during these sessions to allow maximum resident attendance. An entire afternoon every other month is devoted to the experiential practice of three different inpatient and outpatient procedures. This provides us a great introduction to each procedure (See one, do one) so that when the opportunity comes again in the office or the hospital, we are ready to jump in! Procedures on the inpatient medicine service (thoracentesis, intubation, central lines, etc.) are done by residents, and precepted by specialists, ER attendings or our own family medicine faculty. Additional experience in any procedure of choice is easy to come by through setting up extra time with one of these attendings. All residents spend one rotation away for a more intense pediatric experience. Presently, residents a
