THE PRIMARY CARE TRACK OF THE INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Our Primary Care Track offers the opportunity for in-depth training in primary care medicine for residents whose goal is to practice general internal medicine. Our primary care track offers a continuity ambulatory experience constituting 30% of the three-year residency program. Special features include:

• “4 + 1” schedule – 4 weeks inpatient medicine alternating with 1 week ambulatory medicine throughout the year
• PGY-1 rotations in Primary Care areas:
  • A “Psychosocial Month” focuses on the psychosocial aspects of medicine
  • In-depth experience in interviewing techniques
  • Enhanced learning about the many social and psychological issues which affect patients
• PGY-2 and -3 rotations in Primary Care areas:
  • Women’s Health
  • Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Dermatology
  • “Practice Primary Care Month”, designed to expose Primary Care residents to the varied settings in which primary care is practiced, including rural medicine, a clinic which serves the medically indigent, and a suburban private practice.
• Primary Care Conference Series
  • Review of clinical topics in primary care medicine
  • Small group, evidence-based approach
• Women’s Health Track offered within the Primary Care Track
  • Exceptional opportunity to develop special skills in the primary care of women
  • Residents have continuity outpatient gynecology as well as medicine continuity practice