Family Medicine Didactics occur weekly on Wednesday afternoons and include topics presented by Family Medicine physicians, pharmacists, specialists, and other medical educators. Family Medicine-pertinent topics run on an 18-month cycle and routinely incorporate behavioral science and pediatric topics. A full list of didactic disciplines is presented below. We have revitalized our didactics this academic year to include micro lectures on high-yield topics with a shorter overall duration to give residents extra time for administrative tasks and personal needs.
Other didactic activities include: chronic care team meetings, Electronic Health Record (EHR) updates/best practices, Medical Decision Making (MDM), Morbidity and Mortality Conferences, wellness activities, Chief meetings, and Program Director meetings. Our quality improvement curriculum was recently redesigned but remains dedicated to multi-disciplinary workgroups supporting evidence-based improvements in patient care within our office and community. All Family Medicine residents are expected to attend didactics unless on a restricted rotation or vacation except for our PGY-3 residents, who can elect to have office hours, or attend didactics- whichever is more conducive to their learning and overall training goals.
Didactics Curriculum
- Allergy/ENT/Ophthalmology
- Behavioral Health
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Global Health
- Gynecology
- Health Maintenance/Preventive Care
- Hematology/Oncology
- Human Sexuality Including Gender-Affirming Care
- Infectious Disease
- Lifestyle Medicine
- Medical Decision Making/Evidence Based Medicine
- Musculoskeletal
- Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- Neurology
- Obstetrics/Maternity Care
- Pain/Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacotherapy
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Nephrology/Urology
- Substance Use Disorders
- Surgery
Workshops and Special Sessions
- Annual: Resident Led “State of the Residency” and Faculty Response
- Annual: Resident Problem-Solving Session
- Annual: Scholarly Activity Day
- De-Escalation Training
- End-of-life Care
- Interviewing Skills
- IUDs
- Musculoskeletal Exam Workshop
- Office Surgical Procedures
- Pediatric Immunizations
- Professionalism
- Splinting and Casting
- Upstander Training