Curriculum
Educational Conferences
Protected time for group didactics takes place each week on Tuesday afternoons. These 4-hour blocks include a variety of learning formats such as workshops, small-groups, Morbidity & Mortality talks, Journal Club, and traditional lectures (and more!) covering the breadth and depth of Family Medicine. In addition, residents receive formal and informal teaching in ‘Morning Report’ format on inpatient medicine, as well as topical learning at rounds on pediatrics, obstetrics, and more. Quarterly, all of the hospital’s residencies (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, General Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pharmacy) gather for an M&M-style conference on a patient case relevant to each service.
Educational Goals
Our program strives to develop physicians ready for practice without direct supervision, who have the following attributes:
- Clinical competence, delivered with compassion and consistency.
- Capability to adapt to a changing practice environment through the ability to find, evaluate, and implement best evidence for care, always learning and striving for excellence.
- Ability to communicate clearly with patients, families, and members of the health care team, acting as an effective teacher to improve care.
- Personal and professional balance, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
- Ability to interact with, and effectively use, health systems to benefit patients. To do so with an eye to cost, patient safety, and the elimination of systems errors.
- A sense of ultimate responsibility to others, especially patients and their families, which defines any excellent physician.
This Program strives to develop Family Physicians who have the following attributes:
- Clinical competence in a breadth of areas
- Capability of serving patients in multiple settings: hospital, office, emergency department, labor and delivery, intensive care units, nursing homes, and during home visits
- Broad procedural expertise consistent with the traditions and current practice of Family Medicine, in order to serve patients better
- Capable of becoming board certified in Family Medicine on first attempt
- A natural tendency to be observant of, and adaptable to, the care needs of individuals, families, and communities
- Fluent with evidence-based best practice for health and disease management, and on-line sources of information
- Dedication to provision of continuity of care, and reverence for, and promotion of, the long term patient-physician relationship
- Possession of skills dynamic enough to serve graduates well throughout their medical lives
Resources
Residents will have a wealth of information at their fingertips through full access to the FSU COM Charlotte Edwards Maguire Medical Library , which includes access to a plethora medical apps and texts such as Epocrates, DynaMedex, Micromedex, the Sanford Guide, VisualDx, and more. UpToDate access is provided to all Appointed Faculty and Residents.
Resident investment into developing practices as lifelong learning is highly encouraged. Each year, every resident has five days that can be used for attendance at a conference for CME, which is in addition to vacation time. PGY-1, PGY-2, and PGY-3 residents are allotted $1,000, $1,200, and $1,400 per year, respectively, to be used for conference registration, travel, and other related expenses.
Rotation Schedule
PGY1
PGY2
PGY3
4 Week Rotation
- Orientation
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Pediatrics
- OB
- OB
- Public Health
- Outpatient Peds1
- FM Rotation
- Community Medicine
- FM Procedures
- Sports Medicine
- Emergency Medicine 1
4 Week Rotation
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Behaviotal Health
- Ambulatory Gynecology
- Rural Medicine
- Emergency Med 2
- ICU
- Health Systems Mgmt
- POCUS
- Electives
- Electives
- Electives
4 Week Rotation
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- OB
- General Surgery
- Outpatient Peds 2
- Dermatology
- Geriatrics (+24 mo longitudinal
- Electives
- Electives
- Electives
- Electives
- Electives
- Electives
Core inpatient rotation Core ambulatory rotation
Longitudinal opportunities in OB, Wound Care, HIV medicine, and more
Additional Information:
- Hospital medicine night call is covered in a Night Float structure with resident pairs (intern + senior) for one-week stints while on outpatient rotations, for a total of approximately 10 weekends over the course of 3 years.
- Residents can (but are not required to) participate in curriculum tracks including hospital medicine and palliative medicine, with more underway. Regardless of tracks, residents have a number of electives that can be chosen to support to their career goals, whether in rural medicine, women's health, ER, or otherwise.
- Residents can also choose to participate in longitudinal experiences in areas such as OB, wound care, and HIV medicine, based on individual interests.
- Our family medicine center offers directed learning opportunities in “specialty clinics” that residents participate in routinely throughout the course of their training. These include point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS); substance use disorder; outpatient gynecological procedures; adolescent medicine; spirometry; nutrition and obesity; anticoagulation; integrated behavioral health; skin surgery; and musculoskeletal medicine.
Contact Us
Dave DeWall
Residency Program Coordinator
Florida State University College of Medicine
Email: dave.dewall@tmh.org
1301 Hodges DriveTallahassee, FL, 32308
Phone: (850) 431-3452