Family Medicine Residency Program
Philosophy and Objectives
As family physicians, we have the opportunity to provide
comfort, guidance, and healing to the whole family and
to effect change for the betterment of the entire community.
Since these opportunities require not only clinical
expertise but enhanced interpersonal skills as well,
it is clear that the "teaching" must include
both clinical training and opportunities for personal
growth. This is most easily and surely achieved in a
collegial, mutually helpful adult learning environment.
At "The White" residents and faculty are partners in a mutually respectful learning experience, that is committed to excellence. It is the intent of the residency to understand and to respect the physical, intellectual and emotional resources of each resident as an individual, and to assist the resident in successfully completing the educational opportunities encountered.
All of our patients are seen as being equally precious, providing us with opportunities both to serve and to learn. Their dignity, safety and comfort will be uppermost in our minds at all times.
Our efforts to help and to heal are not confined to the medical campus, but extend throughout the community. Providing for persons in need of care, understanding overall community health problems and applying community wide approaches to the prevention and treatment of these problems are major program goals.
The practice of medicine exists as an integral part of the scientific socioeconomic system that makes up our society. Since we must function within that system and do so in an economically responsible manner, the residency will provide suitable instruction in evidence-based medicine, cost effectiveness, case management, team oriented care, and practice management.
The graduates of this residency should be mature and confident, be prepared to provide culturally-responsive care, and to address the environmental problems of their communities. They should be able to design and organize community efforts to ameliorate identified challenges and should act as a role model for young people considering careers in the health sciences. The residency graduate will function effectively in ambulatory, transitional and inpatient settings, acting as the patient's primary care clinician and advocate. The resident will understand the economics of health care and the implication of changing demographics. The residency graduate will model a healthful lifestyle, respectful of his/her own spiritual, emotional and physical needs and of the needs of his/her family.
Goals
Competence
Residents will learn to deliver excellent and comprehensive health care in ambulatory and hospital settings, being able to competently care for 85 to 90% of all health care problems which their patients may encounter, including social, emotional and behavioral issues; and to develop the expertise to coordinate the team of specialties and consultants caring for the critically ill and those in need of interdisciplinary care.
Leadership
The resident will develop the leadership skills necessary to assist in integrating local health resources and organizing them into a coherent system of health care delivery. He/she will also provide patient advocacy as leader of the health care team. Leadership at community, medical staff department, hospital attending staff, and medical society levels will be modeled during residency training.
Quality
The resident will learn the skills of quality improvement, utilization management and risk management in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The system taught will assure that high quality care is provided in a cost effective manner and that the graduating resident is capable of participating successfully in prospectively reimbursed and other integrated health care delivery systems.
Anticipation
The resident will learn to anticipate changes in skills
needed to keep up with demographic shifts and technological
advances. This requires a personal system for keeping
abreast of current developments, the ability to utilize
techniques of community oriented primary care, the development
of understanding and skills in using medical data processing
and information systems, applying these systems to patient
care and business functions, and the ability to provide
exemplary culturally-responsive primary care to emerging
groups with special needs such as women and children,
the elderly, those with mental health needs, and those
with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and chemical
dependencies.
Contact The American Board of Family Medicine
The American Board of Family Medicine, Inc.
2228 Young Drive
Lexington, Kentucy 4050
Telephone: (859) 269-5626
Telepnone 2: (888) 995-5700
