| Residents in the St. John's program work in a community hospital known for its strong family medicine base. As the only residents in the hospital, they receive support and attention from many specialists who serve as preceptors or instructors. The busy emergency room, intensive care unit, and obstetrics service complement in-depth teaching services in internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery.
Each academic class includes six residents, and we have six first-year positions available for the 2009 match. We have filled in the match during each of the last 18 years.
Our family medicine clinic opened in April, 1996, and provides the residents' primary clinic experience with the exception of certain community health and away rotations.
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| Residents at St. John's |
Some of the features of the St. John's program:
- The family medicine faculty is dedicated, diverse, skilled and interesting.
- Program director, William Roberts, MD, MS, is a past president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and provides a strong foundation for our education in sports medicine.
- The call system is unique. The on-call team, consisting of one first-year and one second- or third-year resident, is responsible for all the evening and weekend patient care responsibilities. This has two significant implications. The first is that each resident not on call (or on an ER rotation) is free on weekends and usually after 5 p.m. during the week, during typical rotations. The second is that residents on call are always involved in the full spectrum of family medicine, including deliveries, admissions, procedures, and hospital and clinic patient care.
- Vacation time is selected by the resident (with few restrictions) rather than the program.
- St. John's is truly a community-based primary care hospital where family medicine is not only respected but absolutely necessary. Most patients are admitted to St. John's by family physicians. Not only is the program unopposed, there are no other residents on the hospital floors, ICU, OR, or labor and delivery.
- Unique to the program is a full-time internist who provides consistent bedside and daily didactic teaching to our inpatient team throughout the three years. He and our family medicine faculty member assigned full time to the hospital are instrumental in making our program exceptionally strong in hospital care.
- St. John's Hospital is suburban, with the most modern technologies. While Phalen Village Clinic is also modern, it is located ten minutes away in a diverse inner-city neighborhood.
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