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First, there's life at the office.
During your first year, you'll have office hours in the family practice center one
half-day per week. The idea is to begin building a panel of patients that you will
follow for your entire three years.
Under the supervision of our multi-faceted,
multi-talented faculty (board-certified family physicians), you'll find everything
you need. Ask Dr. Bikowski almost anything about geriatrics and he'll have the answer,
always delivered with compassion. Patient need a procedure? Dr. Brittman is your man. One
of his favorite things is to scrub up and head for our procedure room.
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Our "family" celebrates Thanksgiving |
You'll also find time to stretch your
brain and unwind at our afternoon academic conferences scheduled
from 2 - 5 p.m. every Wednesday (lunch is provided). These conferences
are taught by both Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) faculty and
community faculty and cover everything from cardiology and
gastroenterology to orthopedics and women's health. The format includes
traditional lectures, friendly competitions (e.g., medical Jeopardy),
and interactive exercises such as "Disease of the Month."
Noontime is also when the monthly residents' meeting, residents'
support group, and intern support group happen. It's a great way to
interact and stay in touch with your fellow residents.
One of the things you'll notice almost
immediately is that you've become a part of a family. There's
Ginger, our Office Social Coordinator … Lynda, who has greeted our
patients for over twenty years … and Wilhelmenia, who after 19 years
can find a chart quicker than the computer. Then there is Cheryl, Rita,
Janet, and Mari-An, part of our nursing team that has followed our
patients for over a decade.
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Docking at
North Landing |
Whether it’s the best shopping malls,
which local festivals are a “must see” or what restaurants you should
visit, our faculty and residents are great resources for fun. If
you enjoy sports, Dr. Smith is your man for high school football or
NASCAR, and Dr. Wyatt is hooked on both the NBA and NFL. Dr. Babineau
could always use a running partner. And you can be sure that either Dr.
Bikowski or Dr. Britton will try to recruit you for volleyball or golf.
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Then, there's life at the hospital.
In no time at all you'll probably begin to think of it as
home away from home - Maryview
Medical Center, our teaching hospital. At this progressive, full service hospital (the
only hospital serving our community of 100,000), our family practice residents are the
only residents, so you won't have competition from other specialty residents. Which means
as an intern you'll also be the house doctor - running codes and taking care of
emergencies as they occur while on call. It's a great opportunity to learn about
evaluating and treating the acute problems of hospitalized patients. You'll take
approximately six calls a month and while you're there
you'll get your own private call room and free meals.
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PFM's In-Patient
Service
at Maryview Hospital |
You'll also spend two months on the Portsmouth
Family Medicine's in-patient service at
Maryview Hospital. As part of the in-patient team - consisting of a
second- or third-year resident, one or two third-year medical students,
a fourth-year medical student doing an acting internship, and a
Portsmouth Family Medicine (PFM) faculty attending - you will care for
our patients hospitalized with medical, surgical, and psychiatric
conditions, including those who are critically ill in the ICU.
Maryview will also be home base during your four months
on the Internal Medicine service. Working side-by-side with another
intern, a second year resident, and supervised by our community faculty, you'll care for
those critically-ill patients who are admitted to Maryview Hospital without a primary care
physician. Your day might include everything from didactic teaching sessions and work
rounds to Grand Rounds and review of radiographs and EKGs.
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Pediatric Nursery
at Maryview |
As an intern, you'll get two months of
pediatrics. For one month, you will be doing in-patient
pediatrics at
Children's Hospital of The King's
Daughters; the other month is spent in the nursery at Maryview
gaining experience in attending deliveries and stabilizing and caring
for newborn infants.
Your two months of Ob/Gyn will focus on
family-centered obstetrics and comprehensive women's health
care. You will follow your patients at the family practice center
and do your deliveries at the new birthing center at Maryview. You will
also rotate the Portsmouth Health Department. We have a board certified
OB/GYN physician as a member of our Family Residency Faculty. Dr.
Obayuwana provides our residents with exceptional training in this
area, both clinically and with didactic series.
Surgery is done with a community general
surgeon - one month in the operating room, emergency room, hospital, and the
surgeon's office. You'll get experience in the pre-op work-up, post-op follow-up, putting
in central lines, and lots of minor surgery!
Then there's your month of Emergency
Medicine and Radiology where you'll be seeing patients at Maryview
Hospital's ER, one of the busiest emergency rooms in the region. Your
early mornings are spent with radiologists reading Emergency Room
X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. The rest of the day you'll work one-on-one
with board-certified ER physicians who teach in the Emergency Medicine
Residency program at EVMS. On Mondays you are given the opportunity to
get a more in-depth understanding of the Radiology Dept. by rotating
through the different areas such as ultrasound, CT, and MRI.
We think that being community-based, yet
affiliated with Eastern Virginia Medical School, is the best of both worlds. So when it's
your turn to do a morning report or literature search, just a quick phone call to the EVMS library and it's done. If research is your thing, there's plenty going on at
the family practice center or in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, which is
housed less than two miles from us.
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Working At Our Homeless Clinic |
Our community-based approach is where we really shine. A
mid-size city with a small-town feel, Portsmouth is a community that
depends on us for innovative health care. As a
first-year, many opportunities will be available to you for
community involvement. We
encourage as much participation as possible!
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