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The Sparrow Residency Clinic serves as the site
for the residents' continuity care clinics. Each resident is responsible for a subset
of clinic patients beginning in their first year. Longitudinal care of these
patients occurs across the four years of residency training with patients considering the
resident as their primary care provider. With over 500 new
patient visits and 6,000 return visits to the continuity clinics
annually, residents learn to manage common primary care disorders for women across
their life stages, in addition to acquiring comprehensive experience
in the ambulatory management of obstetric and gynecologic problems. Residents
are also educated in the appropriate use of community resources through
their day-to-day interactions with the social workers that are part of a
multidisciplinary team of providers within the clinic.
In addition to general continuity care clinics,
specialty clinics in breast disease, colposcopy and reproductive
endocrinology and infertility are held in the Residency Clinic. Residents
also rotate through specialty services acquiring further outpatient
management experience in primary care (Family Medicine and Internal
Medicine), urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse, reproductive
endocrinology and infertility, gynecologic oncology and perinatology, and
breast disorders.
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