Residency Pairing
Residents are assigned to work as pairs during their 3-year residency.
In the inpatient setting, each pair is assigned to cover on PGY-1/2 position on a given team. The pair rounds together daily to provide continuity of care to their assigned patients. Each weekday, one member of the pair remains on the inpatient service, completing patient care duties, while the other memeber of the pair goes to the office to care for the outpatient practice.
On the outpatient setting, partners will share outpatient care by covering each other's patients during vacations and other absences, and by co-managing complex patients, and patients with the need for frequent visits (e.g. prenatal care).
During seminar afternoons, residents take turns attending the Family Medicine Core conference series.
The pairing system provides:
- An accessible support person on a longitudinal basis undergoing a similar experience.
- The opportunity for more frequent office practice, while their partner covers the service.
- Increased in-patient educational opportunity from seeing and participating in the management of twice the number of patients one personally admits.
- An opportunity for residents to learn and experiment with systems of partnership practice
- Continuity of outpatient care by the same pair of residents.
- A support person with whom one can often trade call in order to accommodate personal requests.
- Educational opportunities to promote collaborative learning around patient care issues.
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