Our Curriculum
Curriculum Aims
We have designed the residency curriculum, with ongoing input from residents
and faculty, to meet these aims:
- Recognize the Patient-Centered Medical Home, or PCMH, as the core of our
practice and training at Providence Oregon Family Medicine Residency by
integrating interns into teams within their clinic from day one and structuring
both the inpatient and OB services to allow interns and residents to maintain
a regular presence in clinic.
- Longitudinal experiences for senior residents on labor and delivery, the
family medicine inpatient service, and focused training in sports medicine,
gynecology, outpatient pediatrics, emergency medicine and geriatrics.
- Ensure high-quality, obstetrical experience for residents who want to practice
obstetrical care
- Guarantee residents who do not wish to perform deliveries after their residency
a solid grounding in maternity care but also an alternative track with
less OB and more inpatient medicine
Our Curriculum
- Your intern year will start with a 2 week introduction to internship. The
rest of the year is divided into three and six week blocks. All the interns
join back together after the first twelve weeks for community medicine
training and community-focused activities.
- In total, we have 3 week-long vacations + 5 flexible vacation days throughout the year.
- After our overnight residency retreat in February, the entire intern class
has a week of vacation.
- Every block includes continuity clinic with the exception of the three
week ICU block.. OB and FM blocks have two full days of clinic most weeks.
- Noon reports occur every Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday afternoons
the majority of interns and residents have schedules blocked for case-based
learning, resident meetings and support groups, and monthly clinic-based
provider meetings and QI project time.
Intern Schedule Configurations
Intro to Internship I
2 weeks of orientation, ACLS, NRP, and hands-on training in different clinical settings.
Obstetrics = Providence Portland Medical Center 12 weeks, with 1-2 full days of clinic
per week + prenatal care clinic, Fri/Sat or Sun/Mon off
Family Medicine = 21 partial weeks of inpatient family medicine at Providence Milwaukie
Hospital. Three week blocks of FM have the following configuration for
their 12 hour shifts:
- Sun - Wed days, Thurs, Fri clinic, Sat off
- Sun - Wed nights, Thurs post, Fri clinic, Sat off
- Thurs - Sat days, Sun off, Mon- Wed clinic.
- Thurs - Sat nights, Sun post, Mon off, Tues, Weds clinic
Community Medicine Week, all interns together week 13
Outpatient Pediatrics = 1 week outpatient pediatrics, 1 week NICU, 1 week vacation
Surgery = 3 weeks of OR, surgery clinics
Inpatient Pediatrics = Two three-week blocks at Legacy Randall Children’s Hospital
Obstetrics = 12 weeks Providence Portland Medical Center + prenatal care clinic
ICU = 3 weeks at Providence Portland Medical Center
