Family Medicine Residency Columbia - Curriculum
Family medicine educational experiences
Solid teaching blocks in both ambulatory and hospital settings give residents what they need to be wise, effective, capable physicians in today's practice environment. We use a four-week block rotation system.
First year
- Family Medicine Foundation
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Family Medicine Practice
- MICU-PHR
- Community Medicine
- Procedures/Ultrasound
- Obstetrics
- Family Maternal & Infant Care (Mom-Baby)
- General Surgery
- Pediatrics Inpatient
- Ambulatory Pediatrics
- Newborn Nursery
Second year
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- CCU
- Cardiology (PHR)
- Musculoskeletal I
- Musculoskeletal II
- Behavioral Medicine
- Gynecology (PHR)
- Emergency Medicine
- FM Procedure
- Pediatrics Inpatient
- Elective
- Family Medicine Inpatient (June or July of 3rd year)
Third year
(administered longitudinally)
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Family Medicine Inpatient
- Out-Patient Pediatrics
- Dermatology
- Geriatrics
- ENT (2 weeks)
- Community Outpatient Pediatrics (2 weeks)
- Hospice Palliative Care (2 weeks)
- Practice Management (2 weeks)
- Pharmacology (2 weeks)
- Pediatrics Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
- Ultrasound (2 weeks)
- Elective (14 weeks)
Longitudinal experiences
- Continuity Care in the Family Medicine Center and the Family Medicine Inpatient Service
- Continuity care of maternity patients
- Continuity with home visit patients
- Continuity with nursing home patients
- Community health and outreach
- Family Medicine conferences
- Outpatient rounds
- Journal club
- Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Balint Group
- Practice-wide and team meetings
- Sports medicine coverage
- Practice management
- Pharmacology
- Longitudinal Curriculum
- Procedures Consult modules
- Rakel's Textbook of Family Medicine reading program
- METRIC Modules
- ABFM SAMs
Great electives
- Anesthesiology
- Pharmacology
- Dental Medicine Dermatology (extra)
- Pediatric ER
- Emergency Room
- Endocrinology
- Executive Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- HIV Medicine
- Hyperbaric Medicine
- ICU
- Infectious Disease
- Allergy
- International Health (we offer both electives and other educational experiences in global health)
- NICU
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Orthopaedics
- Preventive Medicine Procedures
- Psychiatry
- Radiology/Imaging Research
- Rheumatology
- Rural Preceptorship
- Sports Medicine
- Student Health at USC
- Ultrasound
- Wilderness Medicine
- Cardiology
- Chest Pain Center