Ambulatory
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Ambulatory care training allows all residents to achieve competent skills as primary care providers. There is significant exposure to patients in a broad variety of outpatient sites, in addition to options for further elective choices for those who wish to further enhance their individual skills. Residents participate on block rotations and in the longitudinal continuity clinic experience both on and off campus. There is broad exposure to patients from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Block rotations incorporate work in private practices, primary care clinics, managed care sites, nursing homes, procedural training, subspecialty clinics, other specialty care such as gynecology and dermatology, community agencies, urgent care and emergency departments. We have recently added a clinic immersion week to the ambulatory block, for interns to learn about system issues in their continuity clinics. This includes learning about how referrals are processed, how triage nurses add urgent patients to the schedule, how insurance information is processed, and how dieticians can improve patient care, among other experiences. |