Curriculum and Call
Your Training at Lakewood Rural Family Medicine Residency
Rotations and electives
View rotations below for each year of residency, longitudinal curriculum, and electives.
Moonlighting
Numerous moonlighting activities are available for second- and third-year residents.
Global Health
Opportunities include international and global-local electives, courses, seminars, conferences, and fellowship.
Programmatic courses
The department sponsors several required and optional one- to two-day programmatic courses. Topics include women's health, sports and musculoskeletal medicine, community health, and more.
Call
View information below on shift call, in-hospital call, and family medicine service call.
First-year rotations (North Memorial)
- Inpatient Adult Medicine (8 weeks)
- Night float (2 weeks)
- Intensive Care Unit (2 weeks)
- Obstetrics/Labor & Delivery (6 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
- Inpatient Pediatrics (4 weeks)
- Cardiology (4 weeks)
- Neurology (2 weeks)
- Nephrology (2 weeks)
- Chemical Dependency (2 weeks)
- Family Medicine Skills (Outpatient, 4 weeks)
- Outpatient Pediatrics (4 weeks)
- Urology (2 weeks)
- Sports Medicine (2 weeks)
Second-year rotations (Lakewood Health System)
- Family Medicine Service (Inpatient Med/Surg + Labor & Delivery, 12 weeks)
- Night Float (4 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
- Gynecology & Reproductive Health (4 weeks)
- Outpatient Pediatrics (2 weeks)
- Behavioral Health (2 weeks)
- Hematology/Oncology (2 weeks)
- Geriatrics (2 weeks)
- Orthopedics (2 weeks)
- Rheumatology (2 weeks)
- Health Systems Management / QI (1 week)
- Podiatry (1 week)
- General Surgery (1 week)
- Otolaryngology (1 week)
- Electives (12 weeks)
Third-year rotations (Lakewood Health System)
- Family Medicine Service (Inpatient Med/Surg + Labor & Delivery, 12 weeks)
- Night Float (4 weeks)
- Emergency Medicine (4 weeks)
- Gynecology & Reproductive Health (4 weeks)
- Outpatient Pediatrics (2 weeks)
- Behavioral Health (2 weeks)
- Hematology/Oncology (2 weeks)
- Geriatrics (2 weeks)
- Gynecology & Reproductive Health (2 weeks)
- Endocrinology (2 weeks)
- Outpatient pediatrics (2 weeks)
- Behavioral Health (2 weeks)
- Dermatology (2 weeks)
- Health Systems Management / QI (1 weeks)
- Otolaryngology (1 week)
- Electives (12 weeks)
- Intensive Care Unit (North Memorial, 2 weeks)
Electives
In development
Night float
Residents will have one 18-hour shift every 4 weeks, combining inpatient/OB call and ER night coverage.
Longitudinal experiences
The second and third years will be almost entirely longitudinal. Family Medicine Service will be scheduled for a 6-day block every 4 weeks. During the other weeks, residents will rotate in the outpatient setting with the exception of an ER shift once every 4 weeks and a Night Float shift once every 4 weeks. During outpatient time, residents will rotate through their curriculum by spending a full or half-day in the specialty clinics at least once every month.
Obstetrics (OB) and Procedural Skills
Residents will be expected to perform at least 80 deliveries, but will have the opportunity to perform many more depending on availability and interest.
Residents will be expected to develop competency in primary care procedures (joint injections/aspirations, skin biopsy, IUD/nexplanons, pap smears) and acute care procedures (cardioversion/defibrillation, intubation, thoracentesis, paracentesis, lumbar puncture, fracture reduction/splinting, etc). There will be an opportunity to learn additional procedures during elective time, including endoscopy, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, dilation and curettage, cesarean sections.
Call
During Family Medicine Service in PGY2 and PGY3, residents will take home call for obstetrics and emergency room back up, similar to our physicians who staff these services. There is no additional call scheduled in the second and third years.