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Cognitive
Residents will receive training in the following areas:
- Behavioral science and the family-centered model of care
- Inpatient care of adults and children
- Outpatient care of families throughout the life cycle
- Family-centered maternity care and couplet care of mother and child
- High-risk maternity care
- Evidence based medicine and critical literature review
- Ethics and values in medicine
- Sports medicine
- Occupational health
- Emergency/Urgent care
- Community medicine
- Practice management leading to a successful transition into practice
- Nutrition throughout the life cycle
- Cost-effective care and managing care
- Life long self-learning skills
Procedural
Residents will have the opportunity to become fully competent in performing the following procedures:
Inpatient - arterial puncture, endotracheal intubation, adult and neonatal spinal tap,
circumcision, internal jugular or sub-clavian puncture.
Obstetrical - vertex delivery, electronic fetal monitoring and interpretation, episiotomy
repair through 4th degree, internal fetal heart rate and uterine pressure monitoring, fetal scalp pH, Prostin
induction, Pitocin induction or augmentation, manual removal of placenta, vacuum assisted delivery, low
forceps, management of shoulder dystocia.
Outpatient - laceration repair, abscess I&D, diaphragm fitting, skin lesion removal,
punch or shave biopsy, tympanometry, endometrial biopsy, IUD placement and removal, Norplant placement and removal, ingrown toenail
excision, joint aspiration and injection, EKG reading, cast and splint application, flexible sigmoidoscopy, vasectomy.
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