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Rural MedicineOverview During the third year of residency, each resident does a two-month rotation on rural medicine at the Williamsburg satellite family practice office. While on this rotation, each resident spends four half-days per week seeing patients under the precepting of AFP faculty, primarily Drs. McLellan, Siems and Morrow. The resident is responsible for the medical care, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients who are seen while at the Williamsburg office. Also, the resident is often called upon to deal with patients presenting with walk-in urgencies such as lacerations to be repaired. Occasionally the resident will also perform pre-participation sports physical exams on Williamsburg grade school and high school students, as well as routine school physical exams on the kindergarten, sixth, and eleventh grade students. Additionally, the resident on the rural medicine rotation spends two half-days rounding on nursing home patients, again under the supervision of AFP faculty. That resident also sees patients at the AFP office for four half-days per week while on this rotation.
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