In our program, you will gain a breadth of experience to prepare you for your work as a Family Medicine physician. Together, we offer a curriculum that seeks to equip our resident physicians with the necessary skills to provide compassionate and quality patient care.
The Basics
- Block Schedules
- 13 Rotations per PGY
- Full-Spectrum
- Innovative
- Inpatient Strong
Orientation
- First block of residency
- Bus ride
- Experience for yourself limitations in many of the Social Determinants of Health
- Opportunity to work on the inpatient service with a limited caseload
- Introduction to clinic with senior resident assistance and oversight
- Review of common conditions in Family Medicine
- BLS, ACLS, PALS and NRP
Our Longitudinal Curricula
- Behavioral Health
- One-on-one instruction with our behavioral psychologist
- Agenda-setting, communication, motivational interviewing and more
- Continuity Clinic
- Located in WMed Health's Family Medicine practice at 555 Crosstown Parkway in Kalamazoo
- PGY1: 2 half days per week
- PGY2: 3 half days per week
- PGY3: 5 half days per week
- Didactics
- 4+ Hours Didactics per Week
- Time protected as able
- 4 Weeks Didactics per Block
- Every Thursday AM
- 18 Month Topic Rotation
- See it all twice!
- Monthly Topics
- Ethics and Humanities
- Grand Rounds
- Journal Club
- Morbidity and Mortality Conferences
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
- Integrated into didactics
- Butterfly ultrasounds used in clinic and on the inpatient service
- 4+ Hours Didactics per Week
- Family Medicine Service
- PGY 1
- 3 Blocks
- Gain experience in admissions, daily patient care and discharges
- Progressive independence
- PGY 2
- 3 Blocks
- Independently manage the service with confidence
- Supervise interns and medical students
- PGY 3
- 2 Blocks
- Serve as Chief of Service
- Organize patient care
- Organize resident and medical student education
- PGY 1
- Geriatric Medicine
- Collaborate with the local Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly (PACE) organization, Senior Care Partners
- Admit and manage PACE patients on FMS
- Maternity Care
- Manage antenatal and postpartum patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings
- Manage intrapartum care, including inductions
Our Rotations
- PGY 1
Block Rotation 1 Behavioral Health/Continuity Clinic 2 Critical Care 3 Emergency Medicine 4 Family Medicine Service 5 Family Medicine Service 6 Family Medicine Service 7 Inpatient Pediatrics 8 Maternity Care 9 Maternity Care 10 Orientation 11 Outpatient Pediatrics 12 Public Health 13 Sports Medicine - PGY 2
Block Rotation 1 Behavioral Health/Outpatient Surgery 2 Elective 3 Elective 4 Elective 5 Emergency Medicine 6 Family Medicine Service 7 Family Medicine Service 8 Family Medicine Service 9 Hospice 10 Maternity Care Night Float/Continuity Clinic 11 Maternity Care Night Float/Continuity Clinic 12 Outpatient Pediatrics 13 Practice Management - PGY 3
Block Rotation 1 Continuity Clinic 2 Continuity Clinic 3 Dermatology/Opthalmology 4 Elective 5 Elective 6 Elective 7 Elective 8 Family Medicine Service 9 Family Medicine Service 10 Gynecology/Board Study Preparation 11 Maternity Care Night Float/Continuity Clinic 12 Psychiatry 13 Sports Medicine
Our Electives
- Number of Elective Blocks Per PGY
- PGY2: 3 blocks
- PGY3: 5 blocks
- Create Your Own
- Any required rotation
- Make one from scratch
- Put together your own curriculum
- May be on site or away
- International opportunities including Canada
- Established Electives
- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy/Immunology
- Endocrinology
- Geriatric Medicine
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Disease
- Mackinac Island Medical Center
- Madagascar Tropical Medicine
- Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine
- Palliative Medicine
- Advanced Illness Management Service (AIMS)
- Peru Global Medicine
- Plastic Surgery
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Podiatry
- Practice Audition
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Radiology
- Research
- Rheumatology
- Rural Family Medicine
- Sleep Medicine
- Urgent Care
- Urogynecology
Our Hospital Partners
- Ascension Borgess Hospital
- Bronson Methodist Hospital
- Home of our Family Medicine Service (FMS)
- Where we deliver babies