Family Medicine Residency Program

Didactic Training

Instruction in Family Medicine is provided through bedside teaching, daily teaching rounds, educational conferences and interaction with other hospital disciplines while providing care for the patient. 

Conference Format(s)

1. Morning Report is an educational conference that is held daily (Monday-Friday) at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden.  Morning Report is also held at the Kennedy Health System campuses as well.  During the course of the academic year, lectures are provided in the disciplines of: Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Hematology/ Oncology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Infectious Diseases.  Lectures by faculty and attending staff in other non-internal medicine disciplines are also included on a rotating basis.  There is a also a  Morning Report lecture series that focuses on the “Business of Medicine,” featured topics include: managed care, health policy, health administration, liability, and practice management.  Additionally, Cancer Case Conference and Pulmonary Pathology Conference is held monthly. 
2. Noon Conferences are held at least three times a week.  The following gives some information on a typical month of educational programming:
   1. Journal Club – timely and relevant articles are discussed monthly to review pertinent topics relevant in Family Medicine by residents and attendings.
   2. Board Review – monthly session using Board Review articles and questions. In addition, a 31-hour week-long Board Review is held each September.
   3. Grand Rounds - a weekly program scheduled by the Department of Medicine featuring faculty members, as well as nationally recognized guest lecturers.  It is held live at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.  During the course of the academic year, lectures are provided in the disciplines of: General Medicine, Geriatrics, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Hematology/Oncology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Infectious Diseases; as well as non-internal medicine topics. Also, once monthly pediatric grand rounds are offered at Our Lady of Lourdes.
   4. Primary Care Journal Club – review of landmark and cutting-edge journal articles on Primary Care topics, held monthly, based on evidence-based medicine.
3. Evening CME Specialty Symposiums are educational conferences that are held in the evening over the course of the academic year.  These symposiums focus on a specific medicine specialty or topic of interest. 
4. Bio-psychosocial lectures such as Ethics Grand Rounds are also held monthly during the academic year.
5. Residents present lectures to fellow residents and opportunities are available to present lectures to third year students. Residents also participate in second-year student Physical Diagnosis course. OMM opportunities are available to MD medical students in expanding their OMT knowledge and skill basis.

The resident is required to attend all Department of Family Medicine sponsored lectures daily including Morning Report and weekly Noon Conferences, conferences and meetings while on rotations within the Kennedy Health System, and on Selective rotations.  The only exception is when the resident is on a Critical Care rotation.  Attendance is taken daily and documented.