Rural Family Medicine Residency Program Resident Resources

Conference and Rotation Schedule

Noonday Conference and Visiting Professor Schedule

The following topics are presented on a rotating basis:

ABFM Board Review.
Behavioral Health.
Colposcopy.
Dermatology.
Family Medicine Core Lectures (twice a month).
Geriatrics.
Inpatient Pediatrics.
Journal Club.
Literature Review.
Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement.
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
Outpatient Pediatrics.
Practice Management.
Procedure Workshops.
QI Project Meetings.
Radiology.
Reflections.
Resident and Faculty Meeting.
Residents Only Meeting.
Stress Management.

We also have a Visiting Professor Lecture Series (Grand Rounds) every Friday morning.

Rural Family Medicine Residency Program Rotation By Year

First Year – Williamsport

Emergency Medicine at a Level 2 Trauma center.
Inpatient Pediatrics (two months).
Internal Medicine (two months).
Night Float (two months).
Obstetrics (two months).
Specialty Med/Surgery including Allergy, ENT, and ophthalmology.
Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry.
Critical Care and Trauma Surgery.
Elective (one month).

Second Year – at either the Cole or Wellsboro track

Community Medicine.
Emergency Medicine in a rural community.
Inpatient/outpatient Pediatrics (two months).
Family Medicine Service (three months).
Obstetrics/Gynecology (two months).
Orthopedics/Sports Medicine.
Psychiatry.
Elective (one month).
Practice Management and Rural Policy.
Surgery.

Third Year – at either the Cole or Wellsboro track

Family Medicine Service (two months).
Elective (four months).
Geriatrics.
Gynecology.
Practice Management and Rural Policy.
Geriatrics.
Outpatient Cardiology.
Orthopedics and sports medicine.
Specialty Surgery – urology and gynecology.
Procedure.

Evaluation System

Residents need to know how well they are progressing. The faculty has expertise that recognizes both strengths and weaknesses and works with the individual resident to develop specific educational plans. Residents, in turn, are also evaluators who have regular (and confidential) opportunities to provide feedback to the faculty and to the program.

All evaluations and documentation of procedures are stored electronically and are received upon completion. Resident meetings with faculty advisors take place every six months, at a minimum, to review progress toward family medicine competencies viewed below.

Professionalism.
- Adherence to ethical principles.
- commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities.
- Sensitivity to a diverse patient population
Communication and Interpersonal Skills.
- Effective information exchange.
- Teaming with the community.
- Teaming with other health professionals.
- Teaming with patients and their families.
Patient Care.
- Compassionate, appropriate and effective care.
- For the treatment of health problems.
- For the promotion of health.
Medical Knowledge.
- Biomedical.
- Clinical.
- Epidemiological.
- Social-behavioral.
Practice-Based Learning and Improvement.
- Appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence.
- Improvements in outcomes.
- Improvements in systems of care.
- Investigation and evaluation of one’s own patient care.
Systems-Based Practice.
- Actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of healthcare.
- The ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.
Osteopathic Philosophy and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
- Demonstrate competency in the understanding and application of OMT appropriate to the medical specialty.
- Integrate osteopathic concepts and OMT into the medical care provided to patients as appropriate.
- Understand and integrate osteopathic principles and philosophy into all clinical and patient care activities.