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Family Medicine Service
While you are on your family medicine service
rotation, you care for select patients whose diverse
problems
mirror those you eventually will manage in your practice,
including intensive care, pediatric, gynecologic, psychiatric,
surgical and medical patients. We admit for our attendings and
all no-doc patients, and the service follows patients from the
Medical ICU to the general medical floors all the way down to
our Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Units. There are typically
20-30 patients on the service and three to four residents. As a
first-year resident, you have primary responsibility for your
patients. Attendings do not write orders, you do. As a
third-year resident, you make daily work rounds with a
first-year resident and are responsible for running the service.
A family medicine attending makes daily bedside teaching rounds,
and is also present for the daily morning report on new patients
admitted the night before. Behavioral medicine faculty and
clinical pharmacology faculty participate in teaching rounds.
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