Continuity of Care
Residents provide primary care for a panel of patients. Supervision of the continuity of care experience is by a board-certified family physician. Interns spend one-half day per week seeing patients at the North Hudson Community Action Corporation Health Center. Residents spend an average of three half-days per week in the continuity of care experience.
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
The application of osteopathic principles is taught in a longitudinal fashion in all patient care settings. There is a 12-month OMT core lecture series, as well as case review discussions in morning report. The program enables the resident to incorporate the osteopathic philosophy into daily patient care in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings.
Behavioral Science
Behavioral science is taught in both a didactic and integrated clinical manner. Morning report discussions regularly incorporate the behavioral aspects of family practice.
A didactic approach is used in a 12-month lecture series on psychiatric illnesses and behavioral issues most often treated by family practitioners. Psychosocial issues such as family dynamics and end-of-life care are incorporated into the longitudinal care setting as well.
Geriatrics
Education regarding the care of the geriatric patient is incorporated into all ambulatory, longitudinal, and inpatient environments. In addition, during the residency program training is provided in a 24-month longitudinal care experience in a nearing home. Each resident is assigned a panel of nursing home residents for whom he/she provides comprehensive care under the supervision of a board-certified geriatrician.
Health Care Delivery
Medical ethics didactic training is provided in a comprehensive lecture series that includes the concepts of end-of-life care, patient autonomy and medical legal issues, as well as being incorporated into the longitudinal care experience and in case studies in morning report presentations Practice management is a separate 12-month lecture series given in noon conferences. Community and social health services, epidemiology and risk management training is provided in an integrated approach during the longitudinal, ambulatory and inpatient experiences.
