The Lancaster General Health Family Practice Residency Program is a dynamic training opportunity in comprehensive health education and care delivery, provided to a diverse population in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion and socio-economic status.
The first-year curriculum provides in-hospital training combined with an introduction to ambulatory care and one half-day per week continuity experience in the family practice center. Rotations include two months each in: family practice inpatient service, obstetrics, inpatient pediatrics, emergency medicine; and one month each in: internal medicine, cardiology, general surgery, behavioral medicine, and community medicine.
The second and third years provide a continuum designed to sharpen and expand inpatient and outpatient skills, focusing on the healthcare team. Continuity experiences are maintained and enhanced in both the downtown family practice center and at the Walter Aument center in Quarryville. More emphasis is placed on the personal responsibility of the resident in the care of his or her own patients, including diagnostic procedures (colposcopy, sigmoidoscopy, treadmill stress testing). Second and third-year residents are assigned to a community agency to gain experience in attending board meetings and providing professional advice to service agencies, which complements longitudinal community medicine experiences.
This program offers residents opportunities to participate in required and elective rotations, areas of concentration to explore specific interests and career preparation, weekly didactic conferences, and bloc curriculum emphasizing individual knowledge sets for each residency class (first year – address knowledge and skill sets deemed essential for a successful transition to residency; second year –procedural training and associated practice management; third year - practice management, career planning and development, and a forum for contemporary clinical topics and controversies).
Lancaster General Health utilizes EPIC medical records, offers two clinical sites for residents (one rural and one urban), participates in the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians – Residency Program and Community Health Centers Collaborative, and has achieved National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA) level 3 patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition.
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