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i'm dr seth patterson i'm the program
director of the
career family medicine residency program
there's a new program we've had the
opportunity to think about things
differently to do to kind of create
things from the ground up
so with that we really created a program
that emphasizes
teamwork collaborative care and really
working together
across the entire program and across
everybody in the building to provide
excellent care for our patients
we're in the same building with a
psychiatric residency program and a
neurology residency program
which allows us to do collaborative care
our residents can do longitudinal
training with a psychiatry program
they can do different experiences with
the neurology program
and then we can do collaborative care
for our patients between the three
programs
the experience really helps train you
well for the outpatient world
where you help not only coordinate care
but helps you identify and treat the
vast majority of common problems
one way our program is unique is that we
are
focused on excellent outpatient training
as well as excellent inpatient training
so our residents spend about half of
their time in an outpatient setting
a lot of that here in our family
medicine clinic working in a
multidisciplinary team to take care of
our patients
but then also working in our local
community hospital
as part of our multi-disciplinary team
there to take care of the patients in
the hospital
and we have a very small
faculty-to-resident ratio
so as our residents progress through
their first year
they start getting more autonomy and
seeing more patients independently
as they go into the second year that
continues to grow
and in the third year it will continue
to grow with the goal of
that last few months of your residency
you're basically
functioning like you would out in the
community practice
so wellness is important and we consider
that as we're designing the curriculum
for
this new program and we want our
residents to have a good balance we want
them to
have fun when they're off to go out and
do things they enjoy
so grier is a really neat community
because it's a community of about 30 000
people
located in an area of about a million
people we're about 20 minutes from
spartanburg about 15 to 20 minutes from
greenville so you have
everything that those cities have to
offer but then the opportunity to work
and live in a smaller environment we're
also
close to the mountains and say our
residents love to go hiking they love to
go
kayaking they they enjoy being outside
and
the mountains are 15 20 minutes away and
so it's a really
good location the top factors that led
me to choose this family program
was the location i'm an outdoors person
i love hiking
swimming um kayaking i'm a runner and
cyclist
um every day so it was perfect
opportunity for me to land here
and then specifically for the program i
was looking for a new program that had a
wide
array of opportunities for me to grow as
a resident i have a lot of
background experience in leadership and
teaching and i love teaching i knew that
i was going to have those opportunities
to do that
in this in a program that was growing i
wanted to be part of the foundation for
and i think that they are starting from
day one
um trying to build confidence in our
inner clinical judgment
and i think that having that enables our
autonomy to be a little bit more assured
of ourselves when we're deciding on
on direction and care of patients the
size of our program
is definitely something that i love
about there's six of us residents
in our first year and this is a
perfect size i think in terms of having
the support we can
have with each of our co-residents but
also getting the
perfect amount of attention we need from
faculty
i absolutely loved it from the second
that i stepped in everyone was so
welcoming
everyone just made me feel like i was
meant to be here i wasn't just another
resident or another medical student like
i was important and they weren't excited
to see me every morning
so it just felt like home to me
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