Our Curriculum balances core requirements with strong electives to achieve a solid foundation in family medicine.
First year curriculum
- Internal medicine (3 blocks)
- OB (2 blocks)
- Pediatrics (1 block)
- Surgery (1 block)
- Internal medicine “selective” (1 block)
- Sports medicine (1 block)
- Emergency medicine (200 hours in ER over 1 block)
- Geriatrics (1 block)
- Women’s health (1 block)
- Radiology (1/2 block)
- Urology (1/2 block)
Second year curriculum
- Internal medicine (3 blocks)
- OB (2 blocks)
- Pediatrics (1 block)
- Surgery (1 block)
- NICU, PICU, or outpatient pediatrics (1 block)
- Orthopedics (1 block)
- Dermatology (1/2 block)
- ENT (1/2 block)
- Internal medicine “selective” (1 block)
- Electives (2 blocks)
Third year curriculum
- Internal medicine (2 blocks)
- OB (2 blocks)
- Pediatrics (2 blocks)
- Practice management (1 block)
- Ophthalmology (1/2 block)
- Anesthesia (1/2 block)
- Behavioral science (1/2 block)
- Electives (3 1/2 blocks)
- Rural/international/urban underserved (1 block)
Electives include:
- Advanced readings in pediatrics
- Advanced readings/research
- Allergy
- Alternative medicine (complementary or integrative medicine)
- Burn management
- Dentistry (for those seeking skills for the developing world)
- Endoscopy month (EGD and Colonoscopy)
- Faculty development
- HIV management
- Hospice and palliative care
- Inpatient OMM
- Maternal-fetal medicine
- Natural family planning
- Neonatal ICU (NICU)
- Neurocritical care
- Outpatient family medicine clinic
- Outpatient gynecology
- Parenting month
- Pediatric cardiology
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R)
- Plastic surgery
- Podiatry
- Preventative medicine
- Procedures month (customized month of procedural enhancement)
- Trauma surgery
- Tropical medicine
- Ultrasound training
Internal medicine selectives:
- Cardiology
- Diabetes
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/oncology
- Infectious disease
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Pulmonary/critical care
- Rheumatology