Curriculum and Call

First-year residents will spend most of their rotations at the St. Cloud Hospital in partnership with the St. Cloud-based residents. You will see your own patients one day per week at the CentraCare Lakeland Clinic in Willmar. Orientation typically begins in mid-June.

• Family Medicine Inpatient – 10 weeks
• Adult Medicine — 3 weeks
• Night Float — 3 weeks
• Critical Care — 4 weeks
• Pediatrics - Inpatient including Newborn Nursery and NICU — 8 weeks
• Maternity Care — 4 weeks
• Psych – 2 weeks
• Cardiology — 2 weeks
• Surgery — 4 weeks
• Endocrinology – 2 weeks
• Neurology – 2 weeks
• ENT – 2 weeks 
• Urology — 2 weeks
• Orthopedics/Sports Medicine — 4 weeks

Second-year residents will spend most rotations with subspecialists in Willmar. You will see your own patients 3 - 4 half days per week at the CentraCare Lakeland Clinic. In addition to expanding your continuity clinic patient panel, you will begin to work on inpatient, maternity, emergency, and procedural skills that you will need to succeed as a rural physician. 

• Family Medicine Inpatient – 8 weeks
• Maternity Care, including Newborn Care – 4 weeks
• Emergency Medicine – 4 weeks
• Surgery – 4 weeks
• Women’s Health – 4 weeks
• Pediatrics Outpatient – 4 weeks
• Orthopedics/Sports Medicine – 4 weeks
• Dermatology – 4 weeks
• Research – 1 week
• Addiction Medicine – 1 week

• Electives – 14 weeks

Third-year residents will spend most rotations with subspecialists in Willmar (two weeks in St. Cloud). You will see your own patients 3 - 5 half days per week at the CentraCare Lakeland Clinic. You will continue to expand your continuity clinic patient panel while enjoying the patient relationships you have developed over the last two years, including delivering the babies of your continuity patients. As you look toward your future practice, you will choose electives and refine your procedure skills to provide the best care for your future patients. 
 

• Family Medicine Inpatient – 12 weeks
• Maternity Care, including Newborn Care – 4 weeks
• Emergency Medicine – 4 weeks
• PICU – 2 weeks
• ICU – 2 weeks
• Pediatrics Outpatient – 4 weeks
• Women’s Health – 4 weeks
• Infectious Disease – 2 weeks
• Nephrology – 2 weeks
• Neurology – 2 weeks
• Urology – 2 weeks
• Electives – 12 weeks
   

Family medicine residents are directly responsible for a portion of medical student clinical education during clinical experiences and clerkships.

Medical education features a closely connected cycle of teaching, learning, and progressive responsibilities; senior learners teach junior learners, and all learners are involved in ongoing professional and personal development.

Residents of the eight University of Minnesota family medicine residency programs have many responsibilities, including that of supervisors and educators. Most medical students encounter family medicine residents as teachers during the Family Medicine Clerkship. Therefore, residents receive instruction about clerkship/rotation goals and objectives as well as training in teaching methods.

Resources
Resources are available to aid residents in development as teachers.

• Residents Teaching Students: Developed by family medicine medical student education director David Power, MBBS, MPH, and colleagues, it provides an overview of several teaching strategies. One of these is a common teaching method used by both residents and faculty, known as the One Minute Preceptor.
• Resident Educator Development and corresponding Moodle site: Assembled by the University’s Internal Medicine Residency Program and Office of Graduate Medical Education.
• Faculty advisors and residency directors also can connect residents with resources to enhance teaching abilities.
   

Numerous opportunities to include:
 

• Addiction Medicine
• Cardiology
• Critical Care Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Gender/Sexual Health
• Infectious Disease
• Obstetrics
• Occupational Medicine
• Oncology/Hematology
• Palliative Care/Hospice
• Podiatry
• Point of Care (POC) Ultrasound
• Population Health/Public Health
• Psychiatry
• Sleep Medicine
• Urgent Care
• Weight Management
• Wound Care
   

Our longitudinal experiences include the following:

• Continuity of patient care
• Daily noon conferences

Curriculum includes:

• Community Medicine
• Ethics
• Human Behavior and Psychiatry
• Practice Management
• Medication assisted therapy (MAT)
• Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)
• Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
• Population Health

You will have the opportunity to learn:

• Arthrocentesis
• Casting and Splinting
• Circumcision
• Colonoscopy
• Colposcopy
• Cryotherapy
• Endometrial Biopsy
• Exercise Stress Testing
• Fetal Monitoring
• Incision and Drainage of Abscesses
• Lumbar Puncture
• Office Obstetrical Ultrasound and Point of Care Ultrasound
• SIM Lab
• Skin Biopsy/Lesion Excision
• Surgical Assisting
• Suturing/Laceration Repair
• Vaginal Delivery, both assisted and spontaneous
   

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification is required prior to entering residency. Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification will be done during residency. Certification in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) is also available, if desired.

Night Float Rotation

• One weekend per month
   

OB Coverage

• PGY-1 provides three 12-hour shift coverage of Family Birthing Center (St. Cloud during PGY-1) on weekends.
• PGY-2s and PGY-3s will cover two OB shifts per month during outpatient rotations.

Home Call:
PGY-2 and PGY-3s cover home call, including phone calls, every 12th night on average.