The Curriculum - Descriptions of PGY3
Rotations Family
Medicine/Internal Medicine (Ghent FP Inpatient Service)
During
the third year, residents serve as seniors in the two-month inpatient
family medicine service at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (SNGH),
becoming more active in teaching of students and junior residents. Calls
during these two months are seven per month and often with an intern.
Ghent Office Month
You
will be seeing outpatients at the Ghent Family Medicine Center each day
for four weeks. You will be expected to conduct a noon conference on an
outpatient topic of your choice. During this month, you will rotate
through minor surgery, treadmill stress testing, colposcopy and Coumadin
clinic, and work a few mornings at SNGH's Ambulatory Care Center's
Primary Care Clinic for indigent patients. Residents will also carry
their own geriatric patients at our assisted living facility to keep up
with their geriatrics skills. As in the PGY1 year, there is no call for
senior residents on this rotation.
ENT/Ophthalmology
This
rotation is with community faculty in their private offices with
one-to-one supervision. Ophthalmology is one full day per week with
Steven Snyder, M.D., of Mid-Atlantic Eyecare. ENT is one and a half days
per week with Jeffrey Powell, M.D., D.D.S., of Eastern Virginia Ear,
Nose and Throat Specialists. The focus is ambulatory and you will learn
skills, diagnostic and procedural, that will be applicable in our
practice at the family medicine center.
Gastroenterology
This
is a one-month rotation at Sentara Leigh Hospital with direct one-on-one
interaction with the community faculty of Digestive and Liver Disease
Specialists. Residents round on the patients with common GI problems.
Endoscopic procedures are also part of the experience.
Orthopedics
The
orthopedic rotation at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center and
Orthopedics/Sports Medicine with Orthopedic Associates of Virginia are
great hands-on experience months. Residents are involved in evaluating
and treating young athletes as well as older adults. This is a great
opportunity to maximize your skills on common orthopedics procedures.
Gynecology
The
GYN month consists of experiences at three sites. Monday afternoons are
for GYN Urology with community faculty from the Devine Tidewater Urology
group. Two half-days are with community faculty member Claire Carman,
M.D., of Breast Care Specialists — Wednesday mornings are general
office visits and Friday mornings are for GYN procedures. Tuesday and
Friday afternoons are for GYN clinics supervised by attendings from
EVMS' Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
Electives
Four months of elective rotations provide opportunities to focus on your
areas of particular interests. Residents usually use these months doing
pediatrics, obstetrics, radiology, urgent care, endocrinology,
nephrology, dermatology and so on. Residents are allowed to have an away
elective for a month after department approval.
Board Preparation
Throughout the residency, there are core-content board review sessions
as part of the Wednesday Didactics. In addition, third-year residents
will attend a review course in June
that is sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at
EVMS. The course to be held in June 2007 will be our 23rd annual event
and a number of Ghent faculty will be presenting. In past years,
selected residents have given presentations at this course.
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