Family Medicine Resident Training
The program developed for Family Medicine Residents was designed to advance heart failure training in clinical practice throughout their three year curriculum. Response to the program is closely monitored through pre and post tests at each step. Participants are also asked to evaluate each aspect of the training. Performance is also assessed by the attending faculty during their heart failure rotation in the hospital.
Residents are taught using a spiraling approach over 3 years in order to build on skills gained the previous year.
- First Year
- Basics of heart failure diagnosis and management in lecture format and are assessed using multiple choice tests and patient tools.
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- individual and group visit experience
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- multiple choice tests
- audit patient charts for performance measures
- Second year
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- Case discussion developed and presented by the heart failure faculty
- Case presentation to group using resident cases
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- Perform Diagnosis and design a treatment plan.
- Two sessions in the heart failure clinic with HF faculty.
- Case presentations of standards cases
- developed by the faculty
- their own case presentation
- The third year
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- Practice standardized case with faculty facilitation
- Optional Electives available online
- 2.5 days in the HF clinic under the direction of a HF specialist.
- May select HF clinic for rotation
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- Standardized patient OSCE
- Self-Evaluation of the whole program.
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