Emory Family Medicine Residency Program

1. Emory Family MedicineResidency Program Produced by Emory Family Medicine Informational Brochure 2004-2005 4555 North Shallowford Road, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30338 Phone: (678) 530-0981 Fax: (678) 530-9014 e-mail:sprice@learnlink.emory.edu

2. PHILOSOPHY The goal of the Emory Family Medicine Residency Program is to train excellent family physicians to practice full-spectrum family medicine in the medical environment of the future. We teach clinical and procedural skills that allow graduates to practice in any setting, including rural or remote sites. Residents may select from a variety of training opportunities and environments that allow them to plan for the specific needs of their anticipated future practices. This learner-directed philosophy ensures that graduates have the opportunity to become clinically competent to practice in any setting they may choose.

3. Introduction (cont) In our Family Medicine centers and on the inpatient service, the residency emphasizes the entire health care team. By training with psychologists, health educators, pharmacists, consultants, and family practice physicians, residents develop their patient counseling skills to include an emphasis on healthy lifestyles.

4. Introduction (cont) We emphasize the importance of all health care providers as teachers and administrators. Faculty members teach residents and often learn from them; residents teach each other; physicians and other health care providers benefit from each others' wisdom; and all groups learn from and teach their patients. Residents develop administrative and managerial skills for their own practices and for managed care environments.

5. Emory Dunwoody Medical Center Introduction (cont) Administered by Emory University School of Medicine, the Family Medicine Residency Program hospitalizes patients at Emory Dunwoody Medical Center, a hospital located in suburban Atlanta. Dunwoody features a mix of primary, secondary and tertiary patient care. The family practice residency is the only residency program based at Emory Dunwoody Medical Center. The family practice residency is completely unopposed at the Emory Dunwoody Medical Center. Some rotations occur at nearby hospitals and clinics in order to optimize learning opportunities. These hospitals include: Grady Memorial Hospital, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston Hospital, Hugh Spalding, and Crawford Long Hospital.

6. Introduction (cont) We look forward to helping residents anticipate the future of medicine and shape their residencies to meet their own goals. Most of all, we want residents to feel the excitement of family medicine and to feel confident taking their place in assisting patients in their well being.

7. Introduction (cont) The Emory Family Medicine Residency Program is committed to training excellent family physicians, capable of practicing full spectrum family medicine in the 21st Century. We accomplish this by carefully incorporating clinical activity, education, and scholarly activity within the clinical setting of the Emory Clinic and the academic setting of Emory University School of Medicine.

8. Introduction (cont) Our 2 Family Medicine Centers (South DeKalb and Dunwoody) constitute the outpatient services of the Emory Family Medicine Residency Program, an organization passionately committed to patients' health through the sharing of knowledge and the implementing of breakthrough health care.

9. Introduction (cont) We believe in training our residents to educate themselves, their patients, and each other, as we deliver health care to our patients. We believe in educating our residents as adult learners. It is incumbent upon them to do self-evaluation to assess their goals, needs and progress. With the help of their faculty advisors, residents set objectives based on these goals and decide what experiences are needed to achieve them as well as how to seek out knowledge as part of continuing medical education. .

10. Introduction (cont) In turn, the residents, while caring for their patients, are taught to educate them about their health care and guide them as the patients make decisions regarding their own health care. As the residents progress through their training, they are taught and encouraged to educate each other, other health care providers, and the community through conferences, lectures, and community talks.

11. Introduction (cont) Family physicians actively lead the teaching of residents in formal settings such as precepting, lectures, and on ward rounds. However, we believe that one of the most important methods of teaching is by being role models for the residents. The Family Medicine faculty set the standard; all members of the faculty are providers of comprehensive care to the individual and the family. They see patients in the Family Practice Centers, the hospital, perform procedures, and continue to deliver maternity services.

12. Introduction (cont) Behavioral Medicine faculty, well-versed in family systems, family theory, and counseling, assist by providing additional role modeling and teaching in behavioral medicine and mental health. Excellent support staff provide a model for clinical practice, and include nursing and medical assistants as well as physician assistants; these individuals participate in the education of residents by guiding them through the process of seeing patients in the Family Medicine Clinics, and by modeling how the Emory Clinic attends to individual patient’s and families' needs.

13. Introduction (cont) The Family Medicine faculty also guide the residents in how to be part of the health care team, demonstrating and teaching how to interact with consultants in other specialties, social services, nutrition services, physical and occupational therapy, and community resources.

14. Introduction (cont) The residency exists within the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, part of the Emory University School of Medicine. As part of the Emory academic tradition, the residency strives to make contributions to the discipline of Family Medicine and other disciplines through research and scholarly activities as well as through participating in the education of other members of the medical community. It is through the careful combination of clinical care and academic endeavors that our enthusiastic faculty train Emory Family Medicine residents to become providers in the 21st Century.