Residency Curriculum

Through a combination of required and elective rotations, our residents gain a broad-based education in all medical specialty areas. There are 13 four-week blocks each year. Inpatient training is provided at UP Health System – Marquette and our residents complete outpatient rotations at the Peninsula Medical Center with community physicians.

Introductory Month
First-year residents start their training with a four-week Introduction to Residency. This rotation is designed with hands-on experiences to prepare new residents for the predictable, but critical, care situations they will soon face. Residents are guided to develop a relationship with health care team members and learn how the team most effectively works together to provide excellent patient care in the hospital and in the family medicine center. Hands-on review of examinations skills and coaching with hospital information systems all actively prepare residents for their new role.

Rural Focus
Our second year residents experience a rural immersion, a one-month rural rotation in an Upper Peninsula community as part of the program’s requirement.

Maternity Outreach
Within the rural focus, across all three years of residency, we provide maternity care in Manistique and Newberry, considered maternity deserts for the of lack essential maternity services, to help improve pregnancy outcomes in underserved areas.

Community Medicine
Community connections are essential for family physicians to engage with the community of which they and their patients are part. This rotation provides a wide variety of experiences to enhance residents’ understanding of the community’s role in a patient’s health and to understand a physician’s leadership role in the community. During this rotation, residents will rotate with the health department, local mental health providers, senior center among others.

Path to Professionalism (P2P)
Residents enjoy spending time with their colleagues every year on this interactive rotation. The rotation utilizes various teaching methods including didactic and interactive presentations, focused discussions, skill practice with feedback, and attitude exploration to achieve the goal of recognition of the broad scope of Family Medicine, and includes: population health, social determinants of health, communication skills, interplay with legal and health services systems, healthcare quality/equality/equity, healthcare and personal financial responsibility, patient safety, professional and leadership responsibilities, and biopsychosocial care.

Integrative Medicine Track
Our program offers an optional Integrative Medicine in Residency program for interested learners. This is a longitudinal experience consists of online modules maintained at the University of Arizona/Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) and local coordination with the curriculum advisor. This curriculum exposes residents to evidence-based therapies that are both conventional and ‘alternative,’ as well as additional resources for patients regarding the efficacy and safety of various treatment modalities. Integrative Medicine emphasizes a holistic, patient-focused approach to health care and wellness and treating the whole person rather than, for example, one organ system.

Osteopathic Medicine
Led by Director of Osteopathic Education, Dexter Clark, DO, the osteopathic track for MDs allows allopathic doctors (MDs) to gain training or certification in osteopathic principles and practices (OPP)— especially osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), which is a hallmark of DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) training. For those who elect to participate, there will be monthly hands-on sessions in OMT.

Global Health
Medicine and health transcend geographic boundaries. Family physicians are uniquely qualified to address the broad range of issues in the delivery of broad-spectrum health care in international settings. This practice requires family physicians to be well-versed in a range of issues, including cultural sensitivity in the care of remote populations, travel medicine and recognition of emerging infectious diseases. Second and third year residents have the opportunity to participate in a global health rotation as an elective. Our residency has a sustained, annual rotation with Hillside Health in rural Belize; funding is available for travel.

Rotations

First Year Residents

4 weeks Introduction to Residency
12 weeks Fam Med Teaching Service
4 weeks Night Float
4 weeks Obstetrics
4 weeks Pediatrics
2 weeks Surgery
4 weeks Musculoskeletal Medicine
1 week Dermatology
2 week Behavioral Health
2 weeks Pathway to Professionalism
2 weeks Hospice
2 weeks Gynecology
5 weeks Outpatient Family Medicine
4 weeks Elective

Second Year Residents

8 weeks Fam Med Teaching Service
4 weeks Night Float
4 weeks Obstetrics
4 weeks Pediatrics
4 weeks Emergency Medicine
4 weeks Rural Family Medicine
6 weeks Outpatient Family Medicine
2 weeks Community Health
4 weeks Combined Pulm/Neph
2 weeks Gynecology
2 weeks Pathway to Professionalism
8 weeks Elective

Third Year Residents

8 weeks Fam Med Teaching Service or Float or Hospitalist Medicine or extra OB
4 weeks Pediatrics
2 weeks Pediatrics Inpt Away
4 weeks Emergency Medicine
4 weeks Critical Care
2 weeks Sports Medicine
2 weeks Urology
1 week Obstetrics
1 week Pathway to Professionalism
8 weeks Outpatient Family Medicine
16 weeks Elective

Family Medicine Residency
1414 West Fair Ave. Ste. 36
Marquette MI 49855

Phone: 906.449.1120