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Robert Ringler, M.D., attending, watches Tarsha Darden, M.D.,
PGY-3, check a patient. |
Life as a Second Year
In The Office
The first thing you'll notice is all that
"extra" time you have on your hands now that
call is reduced.
You'll also get even more familiar with the family medicine center, spending three
half-days a week there. In some of these sessions, you'll be designated the acute care
physician. This session is designed to give you experience in the realm of urgent care.
Second year also brings an increased emphasis on out-patient procedures. You can't top Dr. Donnelly
or Dr. Babineau for expertise in
colposcopy - they have a colposcopy clinic twice a month - and Dr.
Britton is our flex-sig pro.
This is also the year when continuity of care
for special populations is introduced. You'll get a chance to follow several nursing home
patients at Maryview Nursing Care Center, our teaching nursing home. Our faculty
make rounds at the nursing care center every other
month.
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In the Hospital
Your month on the Family Medicine in-patient
service will find you assuming a supervisory and teaching role for the family
medicine first year residents and clerkship students. You'll also get another two months
of Internal Medicine as the senior resident, one month of out-patient Pediatrics and one month at the busy
pediatric emergency room at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters under the
supervision of emergency pediatric faculty physicians.
Then, there's another month of ER and another month of
OB. Behavioral medicine is taught throughout the three
years. Your other mandatory rotations are
orthopedics and
cardiology. These rotations are conducted by the 100-plus community physicians who regard
residents as their "own". These sub-specialists open their offices to you,
offering personal supervision and instruction and allow you to perform many supervised
procedures.
There are plenty of options for your
elective time. If you have a big interest in OB, you can work at one of several remote
sites which offer family practice residents training in advanced, complicated obstetrics.
Past residents have also done everything from multiple trauma at Sentara Norfolk General
Hospital's Level 1 Trauma Center to Geriatrics at a continuing care facility for senior
adults.
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