Hands-on and Didactic Training

The core of the learning experience in the residency program is to combine supervised “hands-on” patient care experience with structured didactic educational sessions and department meetings.

Morning Report

Formal morning report is presented every Tuesday and Thursday morning. The assigned resident leads the audience of medical students, residents, and attending physicians in a case-based discussion of both common and interesting inpatient and outpatient scenarios. Residents also present monthly board preparation sessions in which test questions and answers are discussed.

Academic Day Lectures

All Family Medicine residents attend a four hour academic day at the hospital's modern education center every Tuesday morning. During this protected time, lectures and hands-on workshops are presented by Family Medicine faculty, our subspecialty colleagues, and the residents themselves. Topics from the entire breadth of Family Medicine are discussed over a year-long curriculum.

Combined Resident ACGME Lecture Series

Residents from all St. Luke's Hospital training programs attend these monthly conferences in which medicolegal, social, educational and profession-specific issues are reviewed. These occur the second Thursday of the month.

Other Conferences

Family Medicine residents participate in quarterly morbidity and mortality discussions and monthly Family Medicine Department meetings which are held in conjunction with Academic Day. Residents are also able to take advantage of the robust education department at St. Luke's Hospital and attend on-site Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Trauma Life Support, and Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics. Yearly workshops give residents hands-on experience with minor surgical procedures, colposcopy, and joint injection techniques.