Internal Medicine Primary Care Track Curriculum
Interns in the Primary Care track attend weekly dedicated curricular sessions during two months out of their first year (7-8 Tuesday mornings in June/July and March/April). For our upper level residents, there are weekly Wednesday morning conferences on outpatient or elective months and 6 Wednesday mornings each year (12 Wednesdays in total) are dedicated to the Primary Care track.
Curriculum
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Session |
| Behavioral Health & Communication |
- Challenging Patient Conversations
- Mental Health I: Case-based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
- Mental Health II: Behavioral and medical Treatment of Insomnia
- Mental Health III: Initial Diagnosis and Management of Serious Mental Illness in the Primary Care Setting
- Motivational Interviewing*
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| Career |
- Welcome to Primary Care
- Career Panel, Special Populations Career Panel
- Evaluating an Employment Contract
- Updating your CV
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| Ethics & Professionalism |
- Negotiating Treatment at the End-of-Life
- End-of-Life Ethics and Colorado Law
- DNR Discussions
- Giving Bad News
- Palliative Care & Hospice
- Board of Medical Examiners
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| Health Services Research/Evidence Based Medicine & Information |
- Basic EBM for the internist*
- Introduction to Library Resources
- PC Research I: Introduction to Primary Care Research Track
- PC Research II & III: Study Design and Writing an Abstract
- Screening 101
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Managed Care & Office Practice
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- Email Medicine/Telephone Medicine
- Office Management I: Introduction to Billing
- Office Management II: Coordinating Your Practice
- Office Management III: Billing Education and Office
- Physician Profiling
- Reimbursement
- Who Pays Medicare/Medicaid
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| Self-Care |
- Focus Group
- Self Care I: Understanding burnout, compassion fatigue and resiliency
- Self Care II: Creating effective environments for self- and team-care
- Self Care III: Reconnecting with values
- Wrap-up
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Underserved & Special Populations
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- Adolescent Medicine Case Study
- Advocacy I: 1- Caring for Patients in a Broken System & 2- Health Care and the Medically Underserved
- Advocacy II: Beyond the Bedside
- Advocacy III: Medicine & Megaphones- Using the Media to Promote Health
- Centers of Obesity Research & Education (CORE)
- Elderly Driver
- Eating Disorders
- Health Literacy
- Rural Health Opportunity and Loan Repayment
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| Primary Care Workshops |
- Derm Workshop
- Multiple Chronic Disease
- Ophthalmology
- Oral Health
- Pain Management
- Physical Therapy for Primary Care Residents
- Sports Medicine/MSK*
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