How would you describe the culture of your residency?
Our Family Medicine Residency Program's mission is to prepare future family physicians for lives of service to their patients, community, and our profession. We believe in and practice holistic relationship-centered care, collaboration, balance and quality of life, life-long learning, and excellence in care and service. The culture is one of active support so that we can be the best caregivers, colleagues, and friends while giving of ourselves.
How has your program supported resident wellness?
We have a wellness curriculum woven into the culture and practices of our residency. There is active teaching during didactics, and much of our wellness work is through our actions and activities. We have active resident support groups that are monthly for interns and periodically for PGY2 and 3s. In addition, we have Balint groups and other opportunities to learn about our patients and ourselves. We seek to have residents share their journey and understand the importance of vulnerability by allowing ourselves to be known by our team of co-residents and faculty. We work to dismantle self-beliefs about perfectionism that do not serve us well. We teach self-reflective skills and practice the power and importance of forming deep connections of friendships for care and support.
How has your program supported diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) either at your institution or in the surrounding community?
We have worked to improve our recruitment of faculty and residents seeking to have a diversity of backgrounds, personalities, and experiences. We have implemented recruitment to help us look at the stories and value of life experiences that better tell us about a person and their potential and move away from test scores that might miss a great candidate for our program.
What are unique features of your program that you would like to highlight?
Our program seeks to provide residents with solid education and opportunities to be a part of the community we serve. Unique offerings include:
an integrative medicine track
all residents and faculty learn osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM/OMT), and we are a program with osteopathic recognition designation
a behavioral health clinic where we have a child/adolescent psychiatrist and an adult psychiatrist each in our clinic one half-day who, along with our residents, see our patients and provide mental health care. In addition, there are opportunities to see your patients with a therapist to teach patients and for our residents to learn skills like cognitive behavioral therapy or supportive therapy for other life stressors.
We participate in a neighborhood school-based clinic in our community providing primary care services.
Sports Medicine is taught in didactics and rotations to learn sports medicine. A new addition to our is our population health curriculum; this offers residents protected time to get to know their patients, learn about social determinants of health, and hear our patients' stories. It includes experiences with community agencies and other work with the underserved in our community. A favorite experience is Doctor's On The Streets (DOTS), which provides medical care for the homeless.
Contact:
Email: krogulv@ccf.org
Name: Vickie Krogulecki