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Traditional Curriculum with Flexibility

Our curriculum encompasses the traditional requirements set forth by the ACGME, as well as, allowing flexibility to personalize the educational experience for each resident. Each resident meets with his or her advisor during his or her intern year to discuss overall goals and desires during residency and beyond. Residents may choose to follow a traditional curriculum with a variety of electives or may focus their electives on one area of interest based on the established track systems. The optional track templates offer a guide for residents to follow, which allows a concentrated interest in one aspect of Family Medicine such as sports medicine or obstetrics. Currently we offer seven optional tracks in addition to the traditional curriculum.

Curriculum Tracks

1st Year

Obstetrics (two months)

  • Right Start OB Clinic—provide prenatal care at urban clinic with 300 deliveries/year, residents involved in every delivery
  • Follow private OB patients of both OBs and Family Medicine physicians with 1600 – 1800 deliveries/year
  • 40 deliveries required intern year
  • Forceps, vacuum, 3rd & 4th degree repairs taught
  • C/S curriculum available for interested residents

Medicine (two months)

  • Busy inpatient medicine experience
  • Each team includes one resident, one intern and one staffing physician (usually all Family Medicine)
  • Member of the code team
  • Average of 8 – 10 patients
  • Team performs all procedures needed on patients you admit

Pediatrics (two months)

  • Inpatient and outpatient services
  • Two – three days per week in private pediatrician’s office
  • Admit all pediatric patients for community pediatricians & family physicians
  • Circumcisions

Orthopedics (one month)

  • Outpatient clinics
  • Large physician group with high volume and variety of cases

Community Medicine (one month)

  • Exposure to a wide variety of health care services available in the community
  • Learn about and spend time with occupational medicine, epidemiology, social services, school health, child protective services, and board of health inspections

Cardiology (one month)

  • Exposure to outpatient and inpatient consults
  • Treadmills
  • Work directly with cardiologists
  • Reading EKGs is part of the curriculum

Emergency Medicine (one month)

  • Level II trauma center
  • Many opportunities for procedures and to run trauma rooms
  • 52,000 patient visits per year

Intensive Care Unit (one month)

  • New South Tower (open 2009) includes expanded intensive care unit and critical care unit
  • Opportunity for multiple procedures including intubations, ventilator management, central lines, Swan-Ganz catheters, arterial lines
  • Member of code team
  • Carry an average of three – five patients

General Surgery (one month)

  • Work individually with general surgeon
  • First assist in the Operating Room
  • Variety of pathology

Clinic

  • One day per week July – February
  • Two days per week March – June
  • By end of first year, six – eight patients per half day
  • Exceed 150 patient visits, required by the ACGME

2nd Year

Medicine (two months)

  • Supervise one – two interns
  • Perform admissions with intern
  • Code team leader

Surgical Subspecialties (two months)

  • Ophthalmology
  • Ears/Nose/Throat
  • Podiatry
  • Urology

Obstetrics (six weeks)

  • Supervise one – two interns
  • Staff underserved clinic (Right Start OB clinic)
  • Opportunity to follow private obstetricians

Geriatrics (one month)

  • Outpatient geriatrics
  • Nursing home visits with local Family Medicine physicians with a focus in Geriatrics
  • Geriatric Psychiatry component

Dermatology (one month)

  • Outpatient with private dermatologist
  • Multiple procedures including excision biopsy, punch biopsy and shave biopsy

Procedures (one month)

  • Month dedicated to focused workshops on all of the procedures routinely done by FM docs (colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, joint injections, skin procedures, etc)
  • Taught at the FMRC by the Directors

Pediatrics (one month)

  • Inpatient and outpatient rotation
  • Two days per week in private pediatrician’s office
  • Supervise one – two interns
  • Staff all pediatric procedures

Sports Medicine (one month)

  • Ball State University sports team medicine
  • Single group with twelve orthopedic/sports medicine physicians
  • Walk-in acute injury clinic

Emergency Medicine (two weeks)

  • Level II trauma center
  • Many opportunities for procedures and to run trauma rooms
  • 52,000 patient visits per year

Elective (one month)

  • 20+ electives from which to choose including custom made elective to fit individual needs and interests including international experience

Clinic

  • Two days per week
  • Eight – ten patients per clinic
  • Residents must see a combined 1500 patients in PGY-2 and PGY-3 year

3rd Year

Gynecology (one month)

  • Work with gynecologists in office and inpatient setting
  • Opportunity for variety of procedures including colposcopy and cryotherapy

Pediatrics (one month)

  • Inpatient rotation
  • Two days per week in private pediatrician’s office
  • Supervise one – two interns
  • Staff all pediatric procedures

Family Medicine 1 (one month)

  • Opportunity to work side by side the directors in the care of their patients
  • Opportunity for additional procedures
  • Additional day per week of clinic for acute visits
  • Opportunity to supervise junior residents on procedures at the Family Medicine Residency Center
  • Practice management instruction
  • Additional rounding with directors

Family Medicine 2 (one month)

  • Opportunity for additional procedures
  • Additional day per week of clinic for acute visits
  • Practice management instruction
  • Opportunity for site visits for future practice planning

General Surgery (one month)

  • Work individually with general surgeon
  • First assist in the Operating Room
  • Variety of pathology

Medicine Sub-specialties (three months)

  • Three one-month medicine sub-specialties including, but not limited to: Cardiology, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, and Rheumatology

Electives (four months)

  • Four one-month electives of the resident’s choice including but not limited to: International Medicine, Neonatology, OB, High-risk OB, Fracture Care and Splinting, Radiology, Comparative Practice Management, etc.
  • Opportunity to create your own elective

Clinic

  • Three days per week
  • 10 – 12 patients per clinic
  • Residents must see a combined 1500 patients in their PGY-2 and PGY-3 years

Human Behavior and Mental Health

  • This is a three year longitudinal curriculum