The goals of our collaborative continuity practices are to allow residents to diversify their continuity experiences and to better achieve their own personal career goals. Continuity sites are selected to insure a high quality educational experience.
Options for collaborative continuity include:
Working with general medicine faculty in the PACE clinic
Working with internal medicine subspecialists (e.g., ID, GI, Heme/Onc)
Working with a geriatrician
Working with a Women’s Health specialist
In each of these settings, the resident works in partnership with a personally selected faculty member. During this time, the resident is able to work with a focused patient population, with a specific set of clinical problems, become familiar with the way alternative office settings work, and develop experiences and contacts that are useful in acquiring subspecialty fellowship. Approximately half of the residents elect to do a collaborative continuity during either their second or third year of residency.
“My shared geriatrics practice with Dr. Hodges was a great experience – it was like starting my fellowship in geriatrics early. I got to work directly with my attending and learn everything from which lab test to order to new ways to ask hard questions. Working in this creative model, with a specialist inside a general medicine program, really gives me a unique perspective on what I hope to be do doing with my career later.” Deborah Frost, M.D.
