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Longitudinal

Curriculum

Kate Estlin, MD

Family Medicine Residency Faculty

St Joseph Hospital

Redwood Memorial Hospital

Open Door Community Health Center

Why

More Clinic

More Access

Bigger Panels

More Continuity

Integrate specialist learning into their FP practice from the first year

Better Residents

More skilled

and competent at inpatient care

Happier Residents

  • Learn like family doctors practice, be a family doctor from the beginning

  • Think about wellness like a graduate

  • Experience continuity, which is WHY students choose FM

Additional Benefits May Include:

Additional Benefits

  • Residents more likely to stay local

  • Quality follows continuity

Welcome to the Jungle

Old

Learning in Bursts

... and then forget about that specialty for a year.

No Patient Continuity

  • Intern clinic 4 hrs/wk
  • Many blocks NO clinic
  • Panel sizes <100
  • Very poor continuity

No Patient Continuity

Residents not able to be effective PCPs

Integration of learning across subspecialites

No Integration

delayed until 3rd year or after graduation

Tradition!

"That's how we did it..."

New

New

Clinic

Clinic often enough to be an effect PCP from the beginning

Full Spectrum Skills

are the Stones

Full Spectrum Skills

spaced evenly throughout

residency

Home

Home Visits

Inpatient

Inpatient

SNF

SNF

Urgent Care

Labor and Delivery

Labor &

Delivery

Specialty Skills & Experiences

  • Cardiology
  • General Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Dermatology
  • ENT

fill in the gaps and are integrated into practice

Speciality skills an FP should at least observe

Observe

  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Laparotomy
  • Cholecystectomy -- open and laproscopic
  • Appendectomy
  • Colectomy
  • Total knee and hip replacements
  • Spinal fusion
  • Endoscopy
  • C-section
  • Forcepts Delivery
  • Colpoplexy
  • etc

Skills an FP resident should learn to do,

Do

  • Skin biopsies and excisions
  • Electrodessication and curettage
  • Skin injections (keloids, cysts)
  • MSK injections (joints, bursas, etc)
  • Vaginal deliveries
  • Vacuum-assisted deliveries
  • etc

for which specialist teaching is beneficial

Focused Experience Months

  • Inpatient Peds
  • Pediatric ER
  • Away Electives

Focused Experience Months

Exceptions to a

longitudinal integration schedule

How

Continuity

Is The "Secret Sauce"

Clinic Panels

Panels

  • Goal of 250 paneled patients on day one of residency (.2 clinic FTE)

  • Residents paired with the same clinic MA and RN throughout residency

  • Panels transferred intact from graduating R3 to new R1

~16 clinic

appts per week

Clinics

takes an R1 more time

than an R3

Schedules

Sample Month

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