Teaching Rounds
Family medicine faculty, residents, and students meet every morning at 8am after pre-rounding for teaching rounds. For the rural track this occurs at Bibb Medical Center and for the urban track this occurs at Medical West. For the frontier track, this occurs at Medical West during year 1 and John Paul Jones Hospital during years 2 and 3.
Tuesday Didactics
Lunch is catered on Tuesday for "Provider Meeting" where advanced practice providers bring up challenging cases for discussion. Additionally during this time, meetings with our social worker colleagues highlight particular care delivery issues.
Surgery Workshop
Surgery workshop is given by surgery faculty member, Dr. John O. Waits, over the lunch hour every Wednesday. We also use this time for quarterly knot tying and suturing workshops.
Thursday Afternoon Extended Didactics/Workshops
The afternoon is reserved for
Sessions involving a range of topics such as case presentations, radiology sessions, practice management, journal and book club, patient safety/quality improvement, pharmacology updates, topic presentations by faculty, guest specialty lectures, medication assistance therapy, and finance.
Monthly spiritual health session.
Monthly residency meeting.
Casting/Splinting workshops, Ultrasound workshops, Pediatrics Update, Practice Management Seminars, OMM, GXT, vaginal repair workshops.
We occasionally incorporate "flipped classroom" activities including use of our state of the art endoscopy and ultrasound simulators as well as online resources.
Resources
UpToDate
American Family Physician, along with AAFP membership
SonoSim (with state of the art ultrasound simulator)
EndoSim (with state of the art endoscopy simulator)
MedMastery (EKG, CXR, and POCUS resources)
Medical Letter
Family Physician Inquiries Network (Research network with scholarship and publication assistance)
IHI Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Resources
E/M University (for billing & coding assistance)
Aquifer