Application Phase
Community-Based Longitudinal Care
Site Course Directors:
Carrie Dow Smith, MD; Jesse Hart, MD; and Stuart Levin, MD
Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Opportunities:
- One day each week designated for subspecialty care — scheduled ahead of time or follow a patient
- Children’s developmental services agency evaluation
- SAFE Child Advocacy Center
- Quality Improvement project and modules
- Two-day hospice experience (home and facility)
- PACE or Senior Center experience
- Mental health evaluation experiences
- Social worker or care management experience
- Outpatient procedures (follow a patient)
- 16 weeks of continuous outpatient care with interspersed activities throughout a week.
- 1 day outpatient peds, 2 days outpatient adult, 1 day self-directed learning (SDL)/didactics, and 1 day QI project/ study time
- 1 shelf exam and multiple OSCEs, quizzes, and assignments
Locations:
- WakeMed Physicians Practice – Pediatrics
- WakeMed Physicians Practice – Adult Primary Care
- Wake Internal Medicine
- Raleigh Medical Group
- Raleigh Children & Adolescents
Affiliated Sites:
- Wakebrook
- Healing Transitions
Care of Specific Populations
Site Course Directors:
John “JB” Lykes, MD; D. Michael Armstrong, MD; Marili Whitt, MD; and Jenny Kemper, MD
Structure: 16 weeks total:
- 5 weeks psychiatry, 5 weeks inpatient peds, 5 weeks OB/GYN, 1 week at UNC
- Weekly didactics with possible quizzes or written assignments
- 3 shelf exams and multiple OSCEs (UNC)
- WakeMed and UNC-Wakebrook (Raleigh)
Hospital, Interventional & Surgical Care
Site Course Directors:
James Rogers, MD; Michael Williford, MD; and Patrick Georgeoff, MD
Structure: 16 weeks total:
- 8 weeks taking care of adults who are hospitalized on medical (Internal Medicine or Family Medicine) services.
- 8 weeks focused on surgical services
- 4 weeks general surgery
- Two-2 week blocks of: ortho, urology, vascular, peds, CT or ENT
- 2 shelf exams
- Weekly, robust didactic with quizzes and assignments