Curriculum
Our Family Medicine Residency curriculum is designed to give you experience in a wide range of care. It will help prepare you to care for a diverse patient population throughout your health care career.
First-Year Rotations
A one-week night float assignment during ICU, FMS and MCH.
- Critical Care Unit, 2 Months
- Family Medicine Service (Adult Medicine), 4 Months
- Maternal Child Health (L & D, Post-Partum, Triage, Newborn Nursery), 3 Months
- Emergency Medicine, 1 Month
- Inpatient Pediatrics (Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital), 1 Month
- Surgery, 1 Month
- TOTAL, 12 Months
Second-Year Rotations
A one-week ICU night float assignment during a one-month Selective or Elective.
- Behavioral Medicine, 1 Month
- Critical Care (Senior), 1 Month
- Family Centered Pediatrics I, 1 Month
- Family Medicine Service (Senior), 2 Months
- Maternal Child Health (Senior), 1½ Months
- Pediatric ED (Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital), 1 Month
- Surgery, 1 Month
- Selective and/or Electives, 3½ Months
- TOTAL, 12 Months
Third-Year Rotations
A one-week ICU night float assignment during a one-month Selective or Elective.
- Family Medicine Service (Senior), 1 Month
- Critical Care (Senior), ½ Month
- Maternal Child Health (Senior), 1½ Months
- Emergency Medicine, 1 Month
- Geriatrics, 1 Month
- Family Centered Pediatrics II, 1 Month
- Selectives and/or Electives, 6 Months
- TOTAL, 12 Months
Selectives
Choose from these required rotations, to be taken during the second or third year of
your residency.
- Ophthalmology, ½ Month
- Urology, ½ Month
- Community Medicine, 1 Month
- Dermatology, 1 Month
- Gynecology, 1 Month
- Musculoskeletal Medicine I (Sports Medicine and Rheumatology), 1 Month
- Musculoskeletal Medicine II (Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Imaging), 1 Month
Electives
- Electives are taken in one-month blocks. Residents may combine two electives into a one-month block with the permission of the Program Director.
- Elective rotations can be with medical subspecialists, designed around a training objective such as family planning, involve global health learning experiences, or further a research goal.
Longitudinal Courses
- Practice Management and Professional Development: This longitudinal learning experience is facilitated through both formal and informal mentor relationships, hospital committee participation, and professional guidance from our faculty, with a goal to graduate physicians prepared to start practice or pursue fellowship training.
- Didactics: Formal didactic learning takes place, weekly, through our ½ day Family Medicine Residency Program Conference Program. A rolling 18-month curriculum is delivered by speakers and through workshops, with opportunities for questions and practical application.