Goals & Objectives
Goals
The goal of the BUSM/BMC Department of Family Medicine Residency Program is to prepare future physicians for productive careers by emphasizing multidisciplinary efforts that integrate comprehensive primary care and public health approaches to the needs of patients, families, and their communities. The department is committed to developing care within the context of the patient's family, and where appropriate, care of the family as a unit. To exemplify the best in family medicine, competence, continuity and comprehensiveness permeate the everyday clinical activities of staff, residents and medical students.
The Program
The residency program of the department provides a full spectrum of family medicine education to residents so that they become fully competent physicians capable of providing high quality care to their patients. Patient care and educational activities focus on what is relevant to the resident's future practices. Their continuity practice occurs at local community health centers: Codman Square Health Center and South Boston Community Health Center. Residency hospital rotations to promote knowledge and skills necessary for a family physician occur at Boston Medical Center. In this way, the residency program is integral to the department's and BMC's effort to improve the level of primary care provided in our community and to provide family medicine services for those to whom this was previously not available.
The residency is composed of six residents per year, and each participates in three years of residency training. During their entire residency, residents are paired and then pairs are matched with a community health center. For inpatient rotations, the pair is in the hospital during morning hours and attends noon conferences at BMC together. Except for Wednesday, which is designated a teaching day, one pair member goes to the health center for his/her continuity practice following the seminar, while the second member of the pair remains on the inpatient service. With the paired system, residents are able to leave the hospital promptly because their partner is assuming inpatient responsibilities, and the health center can expect regular and continuous coverage by the partnership. Residents benefit from exposure to a larger number of patients without a concomitant increase in service commitment.
Click to view the residency curriculum. (PDF - 53 KB)
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