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Overview of the Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed to provide the knowledge and experience that our residents need to develop into competent and caring family physicians.

We changed/rearranged some curricular elements as on July 2003, based on recommendations of the curriculum committee (three residents, two faculty).  These rearrangements will place learning experiences in the most appropriate place in the curriculum and allow us to satisfy the new work hour rules.

The curriculum has also been updated for July 2005 to accommodate the addition of the three year osteopathic residency (instead of the one year internship).  Pediatrics will become a one-month rotation in 2nd and 3rd year, and cardiology will be the rotation that is combined with night float (now called continuity ED) for the second year.  In the third year, the two months of night float will be more closely tied to an ED experience.  We believe the increase in experience in Emergency Medicine at the upper levels of the curriculum will allow our residents to polish their skills and confidence at acute medicine before they graduate.

In July 2006 we added a first year night float system.  This will improve continuity of care during the daytime hours.  We moved one of the months of surgery to second year.  

First Year Curriculum

We integrate rotations, longitudinal patient care and didactic teaching experiences, conferences, and seminars to provide a firm foundation in all areas of family medicine. The first year provides in-hospital training with one or two half days per week spent seeing patients in the family practice center. Night float covers all call during the week. Our new Outpatient Family Medicine I rotation combines an introduction to office medicine with community medicine and behavioral medicine. 

Osteopathic internship details

Second Year Curriculum

The second and third years continue to provide inpatient training but there is increasing emphasis on ambulatory rotations. The second year resident sees patients in the family medicine center two to three half days per week and the third year resident sees patients in this office three to four half days per week.

Night call in the second and third years is covered by the night float system. The resident on the night float rotation is on call Sunday through Thursday night for one month (two separate 2 week stretches). He or she has no daytime responsibilities except seeing his or her family medicine center patients one half day per week and this resident has no weekend call responsibilities.

Third Year Curriculum

Longitudinal Curriculum

Workshops and Courses
These courses are all paid for by the residency and are available at Altoona Hospital.