First Year Residents Curriculum

Continuity Clinic - 3 half-days per week
Vacation - 2 two-week blocks

Family Medicine Inpatient Block (FMIB) - 4 months
The FMIB service provides care for patients from our Columbia practices and our satellite clinics who require hospitalization. This is a two-team service, Black Team and Gold Team, which alternate admitting days. Each team is made up of two interns, two seniors and a family medicine attending. This rotation is the foundation of our inpatient medicine education. Residents have daily morning report, teaching on rounds, and the chance to teach medical students. This is where interns learn to provide excellent patient care and work as a team.

Family Maternity Care (FMC) - 1 month
The month-long FMC provides a structured curriculum that introduces residents to family-centered perinatal care. This rotation is supervised and taught by family medicine attendings. During FMC, residents benefit from working one-on-one with faculty members and from supervising the family medicine obstetrical service.

Ambulatory Pediatrics - 2 weeks
This rotation provides residents with an outpatient pediatrics experience split between specialty clinics with University physicians and general pediatrics with private physicians.

Emergency Medicine - 1 month
The goal of this rotation is to train residents in the diagnosis and management of problems that present in the emergency room.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) - 2 weeks
This rotation allows the resident to acquire competence in evaluation, diagnosis, and management of sick newborn infants of all gestational ages in the intensive care setting. Residents work with the Pediatrics Department on this rotation.

Inpatient Pediatrics - 2 months
Residents work with the Pediatrics Department to learn skills needed to care for acutely ill children in a hospital setting.

Obstetrics - 1 month
Residents work closely with the obstetrics service during this month on labor and delivery. They see triage patients, manage labor, and perform deliveries. Residents serve as the night float intern and work closely with an OB senior and attending. Since they are the only intern on, we have access to all the deliveries and there is no worry about having to split those with another intern.

Well Baby Nursery - 1 month
During this rotation, residents work with the Pediatrics Department to acquire skills needed to diagnose and treat illness in the neonate and to learn newborn resuscitation and circumcisions. They also provide care for healthy newborn infants.