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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINEInternal Medicine Residency ProgramPrimary Care Program
Thank you for your interest in our Primary Care Program! The program was developed in 2006 as an option within the Temple University Internal Medicine Program to serve the needs of residents who expressed interest in pursuing a career in primary care after residency. We are excited to provide these residents with both the rigorous, hospital-based training of the internal medicine residency and an intensive primary care training experience based on the principles of continuity, mentorship, and small group learning. The primary care track offers residents all the resources of a traditional urban internal medicine program with a focus on the core skills necessary to function as a practicing outpatient physician after residency.
The goal of the Primary Care Program is to provide residents interested in primary care, or closely- related specialties, with an intensive primary care experience throughout their residency. The structure of the program provides a longitudinal primary care training experience that simulates small group practice as well as exposure to community general internal medicine outside of the academic center setting. In addition, the program fosters an environment in which trainees engage each other regularly concerning issues relevant to their future careers. The components of this training program include:
All residents in the Primary Care Program have practices based in the General Internal Medicine faculty practice at Jones Hall (categorical residents have their outpatient practice based at the Medicine Group Practice, 4th Floor Outpatient Building). Residents are expected to function as partners in a group practice with their co-residents and faculty supervisors. They are responsible for coordinating care with support staff, following up on results of laboratory and other studies they order, and answering messages from their primary care patients.
The Primary Care Program director meets regularly with all residents in the program to discuss outpatient clinical skills, post-residency career planning, and research interests. In addition, efforts will be made to match residents with other faculty who share interests with the resident. The assigned community general internal medicine physician will provide each resident with another mentor as they consider their future careers.
Residents attend all educational activities organized for internal medicine residents, including the ambulatory week didactics and ambulatory grand rounds on Monday afternoons.
Weekly program-specific conferences serve as a space to experiment with non-traditional resident-driven educational models for primary care training. One resident is assigned to lead each of these sessions with faculty facilitation. The Primary Care Program director will facilitate conferences with additional participation from the primary care chief resident, interested general internal medicine faculty, and other invited guests.
Each resident in the Primary Care Program will be assigned a second outpatient preceptor experience in addition to their continuity practice. The attending preceptors are practicing general internists in the community invited to participate because of their interest in teaching and mentoring. This experience provides another opportunity to learn clinical general medicine, to interact with a mentor, and to gain experience with the operations of a community primary care practice. If specific requests are made regarding a preferred practice type for the second continuity experience, all efforts will be made to fulfill the request.
The outpatient block consists of two separate intensive two-week experiences in clinical settings not traditionally taught in medicine residency but directly relevant to outpatient medical practice. All categorical residents participate in the outpatient block once during the second year. Primary care program residents are required to participate in 2 outpatient block experiences during the second year. For additional information, please check our Ambulatory Curriculum site.
The Primary Care Program is fully integrated with the Temple University categorical internal medicine residency. If you are at all interested in participating in this program, please let Maria Cruz know when you are contacted for an interview so we may better match you with a faculty interviewer. We admit qualified and interest residents into the program as interns. Since we also recognize that career plans can change during residency, residents may be approved to move into the track as a PGY-2, space permitting. The program leadership offers complete support for whatever career path participating residents ultimately choose. For this reason, although we encourage it, participation in the Program does not require you to be certain that Primary Care is your career path.
If you are interested in the Primary Care Program, please feel free to contact us for more information:
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