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Thank you for visiting the Combined Family Medicine / Internal Medicine Residency Program's website. The Eastern Virginia Medical School's Combined Family Medicine / Internal Medicine Residency commenced in July 1995 as the first operational program focusing on primary care.  Our program is now in its fifteenth year with 33 graduates.

Program Goals

• Provide residents a broad array of generalist faculty mentors (family medicine faculty, general internists, pediatrics) with whom they can learn and care for patients.
• Equip trainees to manage a wide spectrum of ambulatory and hospitalized patients across the lifecycle, including the medically complex patient.
• Allow residents to select specific training experiences needed by communities in which they intend to practice.
• Provide the opportunity for residents to acquire competence with a large number of inpatient and ambulatory procedures.
• Prepare residents with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to successfully practice and achieve board certification in the disciplines of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine.
• Refine resident skills with critically appraising the literature, applying information technology to patient care, and managing medical practice.

Program Overview

• Duration - four postgraduate years
• Board Eligibility - graduates are board eligible in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine
• Ambulatory Training - 50% of the education experience takes place in the ambulatory settings
• Continuity Ambulatory Training - takes place on campus in a busy model academic Family Medicine setting

Block Rotation Schedule

• Block Rotation Schedule - satisfies board eligibility for Family Medicine and Internal Medicine.
• Tailoring Experiences - This three-month period of time can be spent obtaining experiences that are particularly pertinent to the residents practice goals and interests (e.g. additional obstetrics, pediatric experience, procedure experience, and away rotations).
• Adult Inpatient Training - 5 months as a PGY-1 and 6 months total as a PGY-2 & 3 takes place on general internal medicine ward services run by full-time faculty from the division of general internal medicine. In this setting, second-year combined residents are responsible for supervising medical students and housestaff from categorical internal medicine, emergency medicine, psychiatric, Family Medicine, and obstetric/gynecology. Combined residents spend one month during their PGY-4 year on the inpatient Family Medicine service.
• Family Medicine Continuity Ambulatory Experience - in addition to the weekly ambulatory continuity experiences Combined Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Residents spend five block ambulatory months training in the Family Medicine center.

Combined Resident Continuity Family Medicine Center Experience

Curriculum/Education Programs

• Weekly Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
• Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Didactics – Wednesday afternoons
• Women's Health Education Program (Every Woman's Life)
• In-service Exams in Family and Internal Medicine each program year
• Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (American College of Physicians) - provided to residents
• Core Content Review
• Journal Club/Evidence Based Medicine - once a month

We appreciate your visit to the Combined Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Web site.

James G. Dixon, M.D.
Program Director