As a rural community family medicine residency, our focus is on experiential
learning through direct patient care along with a rigorous didactic curriculum.
This has served us well as our graduates have a first time pass rate of
99 percent on the American Board of Family Medicine certification examination.
Didactics:
Didactics occurs for one hour each morning, consisting of a variety of
topics and learning modalitites. Some examples include specialist lectures,
skills workshops, journal clubs, M&Ms, case presentations and more.
Our morning conferences are attended by a geriatrician and a doctor of
pharmacy, both of whom aid in putting the conference topics into practical
clinical contexts. We require each resident to do an office-based quality
improvement (QI) project in addition to a second scholarly project of
their choice during residency and to present at least one of these scholarly
projects at the regional, state or national level.
Recently, three teams consisting of five faculty members and three residents
have authored review articles that have been submitted to and accepted
for publication by “American Family Physician".
Our residency program is currently developing a point of care ultrasound
curriculum (POCUS) consisting of lectures, online simulation modules,
and hands-on learning.
