Curriculum
Curriculum
First Year
- Continuity Family Medicine Clinic (1-2 half-days/week)
- Inpatient Medicine:
- Adult Medicine Inpatient Service (1 block)
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service (1 block)
- Population Health - combined inpatient/outpatient (2 blocks)
- Pediatric Inpatient Service (Children’s Minnesota Hospital) (2 blocks)
- Emergency Medicine (1 block)
- Obstetrics (2 blocks)
- Orthopedics (1 block)
- Surgery (1 block)
- Night Float (1 block)
- Family Medicine Month (Our best kept secret! Didactics and hands-on workshops including a week of vacation over the December holiday!) (1 block)
- Daily Noon Conference
- Half-Day Didactic Workshops (every other block)
- Dedicated Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) project time (one half-day/block)
- Mangata Wellness (monthly group session and personal half-day every other month)
- Longitudinal curriculum (2 half days/block on outpatient rotations)
Second Year
- Continuity Family Medicine Clinic (2-3 half-days/week)
- Inpatient Medicine:
- Adult Medicine Inpatient Service (1 block)
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service (1 block)
- Pediatric Inpatient Service (Sr. resident, Children’s Minnesota Hospital) (1 block)
- Dermatology (1 block)
- Gynecology (1 block)
- Intensive Care (1 block)
- Cardiology (two weeks)
- Neurology (2 weeks)
- Obstetrics-Maternal Fetal Medicine/NICU (1 block)
- Rural Medicine & Pediatrics (2 blocks)
- Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) (two weeks)
- Subspecialty Selective (1 block)
- Longitudinal Night float (approx. 4 weeks) and Call
- Daily Noon Conference
- Half-Day Didactic Workshops (every other block)
- Dedicated Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) project time (1 half-day/block)
- Mangata Wellness (monthly group session and personal half-day every other month)
- Longitudinal curriculum (2 half days/block on outpatient rotations)
- Practice Search Preparation Workshop
Third Year
- Continuity Family Medicine Clinic (2-3 half-days/week)
- Chief Resident – Inpatient Services (2 blocks)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (1 block)
- Pediatric Outpatient Specialties (1 block)
- Sports Medicine (1 block)
- Subspecialty Selective (1 block)
- Geriatrics, Palliative Care & Hospice (1 block)
- Electives (5 blocks, up to 2 blocks away)
- Longitudinal curriculum (2 half days/block on outpatient rotations)
- Longitudinal Night float (approx. 4 weeks) and Weekend/Holiday Call
- Daily Noon Conference
- Half-Day Didactic Workshops (every other block)
- Dedicated Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) project time (one half-day/block)
- Mangata Wellness (monthly group session and personal half-day every other month)
- Transition to Practice Workshop
Longitudinal Curriculum
Introduced in 2023, our longitudinal curriculum integrates conceptual learning about several key aspects of Family Medicine with the focused learning of block rotations. Longitudinal experiences allow residents to develop and grow in these areas throughout residency, integrating these skills continuously in their continuity practice. Longitudinal curriculum topics include the following:
- Behavioral Medicine
- Addiction Medicine
- Quality Improvement
- Population Health
- Health Equity
- Advocacy
- Health Systems Medicine
- Practice Management
Longitudinal Procedures
- Casting / Splinting
- Circumcision
- Colposcopy
- Endometrial Biopsy
- IUD placement
- Nexplanon
- Joint Injections
- Obstetrical Ultrasound
- POCUS
- Podiatry
- Sports Medicine
- Dermoscopy
- Skin Biopsy
- Laceration repair
- Removal / excision of skin lesions
- Incision & drainage
- Suture placement / removal
- Foreign body removal
- Cryotherapy
- Vivitrol administration
- Pregnancy termination (elective)
- Vasectomy (longitudinal,elective)
Longitudinal Community Experiences
- Face to Face High Risk Teen OB clinic
- Little Sisters of the Poor Nursing Home
- Home Visits
- Union Gospel Mission Clinic (at homeless shelter)
- Community Oriented Primary Care partnerships
- RS Eden Addiction Treatment partnership
- Care of the Unhoused (mobile outreach clinic)