First Year Curriculum

 

First Year Curriculum

The first year emphasizes Inpatient Care, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, but also has rotations in Obstetrics, Ambulatory Pediatrics, Outpatient Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Gynecology.

This year begins in early June with a 3 week orientation period designed to familiarize the incoming resident to our department and to the University of Virginia Health System.

One-half day per week during the first year is spent at the Family Practice Center in the delivery of comprehensive outpatient care. First year residents take call on various hospital services and is never more frequent than every fourth night. There is no call during Inpatient Care, Outpatient Pediatrics, or Gynecology rotations. Call during the first year averages every fifth night.

February marks the Essentials of Family Medicine I month, a didactic month where residents spend a month together participating in a combination of seminars, workshops, and self study exercises directed specifically at their level of training (see below for more information about this.)

A typical schedule for Year 1 follows:

 

First Year Residents
  • Orientation (begins mid June)
    Family Practice Orientation
    including (where possible)
    Acute Cardiac Life Support, 
    Pediatrics Acute Life Support,
    Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics,
    Hospital and Department Orientations.

2 Weeks
  • Family Medicine Essentials I (Didactic Block Month)

4 weeks
  • Family Medicine Inpatient

6 weeks
  • Obstetrics

6 weeks
  • Pediatric Wards and Nurseries (including Newborn)

11 weeks
  • Pediatric Clinic

4 weeks
  • General Medicine, MICU, Cardiology

12 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine

4 weeks
  • Family Medicine Outpatient

2 weeks
  • Vacation

3 weeks

 

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