Family Medicine Residency curriculum
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Our Family Medicine Residency clinics are the center of our program, which is designed to train expert clinicians in the outpatient office setting. Both of our resident clinics provide outstanding, unique sites to build patient relationships and continuity clinic experience.
In addition, our program offers:
- A focus on community health. The Community Health, Advocacy and Managing Populations (CHAMP) curriculum integrates throughout residency training.
- Inpatient rotations in adult medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics, along with specialty rotations at some of the finest community hospitals and clinics in the Midwest.
- Ample time for electives. Residents may choose focused areas of interest. Refer to Rotation List.
Rotation list
The Family Medicine Residency program offers more than 20 different opportunities to gain training in inpatient medicine. In addition to core rotations, a wide variety of electives are available. Elective rotation experiences can also be tailored by working with a faculty advisor.
- Behavioral medicine
- Community Health, Advocacy and Managing Populations (CHAMP)
- Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
- Emergency medicine (ER)
- Family medicine teaching service (FMTS)
- Geriatrics
- Gynecology (GYN) and women’s health
- ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
- Integrative Wellness
- Intro to Private Practice (IPP)
- Newborn
- Obstetrics (OB)
- Ophthalmology
- Orientation to Family Medicine Residency
- Orthopedics (Ortho)
- Pediatric emergency medicine – Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (Peds ER)
- Pediatric office
- Pediatric wards at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
- Sports medicine
- Surgery
- Urology
Sample schedule
This sample schedule shows first-, second- and third-year rotations and electives.
First Year
- Orientation
- FMTS
- FMTS
- Integrated wellness
- OB
- OB
- Peds wards
- CHAMP 1
- ICU
- ER 1
- Newborn
- Surgery
- Intern selective
Second Year
- FMTS
- FMTS
- Night float/MHS
- CHAMP 2
- OB
- Peds ER
- Peds office 1
- Geriatrics
- Ortho 1
- Psych#
- GYN
- Urology#/Elective#
- Elective
Third Year
- FMTS
- FMTS
- Night float/MHS
- Intro to private practice
- Ortho 2/women’s health
- ENT#/Optho#
- Peds office 2
- Senior selective
- Sports med#
- Elective or OB*
- Elective or OB*
- Elective
- Elective
* High-track OB
# Can be taken second or third year
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