Essentials of Family Medicine
What are the Essentials of Family Medicine I, II & III?
Our three-month “Essentials of Family Medicine” series is an ambitious and innovative curriculum for teaching important core knowledge and skills for a wide variety of key areas important to developing physicians. Each year, each residency class spends a month together participating in a combination of seminars, workshops, and self study exercises directed specifically at their level of training, to enhance clinical skills as well as to introduce and build on topics such as:
- Procedures training
- Well child, adolescent, and adult care
- Concepts of prevention and screening
- Chronic disease care
- Health Equity
- Practice management and leadership
- Quality improvement
- Information Mastery
- Teaching
- Self-reflection and self-care
- Optimizing the physician/patient relationship
- Sports medicine
- Professionalism