Obstetrics

Second year resident will have an additional 2 months of OB. During this rotation, residents will continue to expand their knowledge in normal obstetrics, supervising first year residents with deliveries, and will begin to learn the skills needed for more complicated obstetric cases, such as forceps, vacuum extraction, cesarean section, pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, or pre-term labor.

Family Medicine (ICU)

An additional 3 months of Family Medicine with an emphasis on ICU Patients and as the senior resident overseeing the progress of the first year residents and medical students.

Pediatrics

A 1 month inpatient and outpatient experience at Sparks Regional Medical Center and the Family Medical Center is required. Direct supervision is provided by Family medicine faculty and by our full time pediatric faculty mentor for inpatient, outpatient and NICU experiences.

Emergency Medicine

Each first year resident will spend one month in the busy Emergency Department either at Sparks Regional Medical Center or at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center. Residents function as an ER physician, and are always under the supervision of competent ER staff. Residents achieve cognitive and procedural skills in all types of emergency medicine, trauma, acute behavioral crises and major and minor emergency surgery. The first year resident will not have call responsibility during this month.

Surgery

Residents work with a surgeon at the hospital and at his office, on both inpatient and outpatient surgical problems for one month in each of the first two years. Emphasis is placed on pre- and post-operative care and management of complications when they arise. The resident is not expected to become a surgeon, but to be familiar with surgical techniques and procedures, pre-and post-operative care, and to manage the surgical patient in consultation with a surgeon.

Gynecology

During the second year, each resident will spend a month with a gynecologist in his office and in the hospital. Emphasis is placed on the common GYN procedures that family physicians will encounter in their practice, such as colposcopy, endometrial sampling, and pelvic examinations. Coupled with longitudinal experiences the resident gains from their own patients, residents can feel certain of their proficiency in this area.

Sports Medicine

A one month rotation with a sports medicine clinic. Emphasis will be on sports medicine evaluations, casting and splinting techniques, and evaluation and treatment of acute problems.

Pulmonary/Critical care

Second year residents spend one month with our pulmonary/critical care specialists at Sparks, where they refine their skills for ICU care, management of airways and ventilators, learn procedures such as central line placement and chest tube placement, and where they care for very ill patients under the watchful eye of our specialist colleagues.

Elective

Any rotation in the field of the residents choice.