Hennepin County Medical Center Program Family Medicine Residency

Program Overview

Training family physicians for urban, rural, and global practice

Established in 1969, the Family Medicine Residency at Hennepin Healthcare remains at the forefront of main care. Residents gain immediate, hands-on experience working with a diverse patient population. Our residents use the latest engineering science and learn from dedicated teaching staff and specialists. Our program features holistic and integrative medicine, women'due south wellness, sports medicine, geriatrics, and international health.

Emphasis on Leadership

We emphasize resident leadership and a multidisciplinary arroyo that builds stiff, collegial relationships at all levels. Our graduates develop clinical expertise, effective advice, leadership skills, and applied management techniques. Many pursue fellowships or accept teaching kinesthesia positions across the land.

Opportunities

Family Medicine residents enjoy a weekly academic half-day (five hours) of protected time to focus on education, procedures, and research. Resident wellness and resilience is a superlative priority. Our curriculum incorporates stress direction, mind-body medicine, and other holistic techniques across rotations.

• Nationally recognizedStaged Diabetes Management
• Well developedHealth Care Homeprogram launched and accredited in 2011 by the Minnesota Department of Wellness.
• Procedural preparationin OB-GYN procedures, skin biopsies, colposcopies, sports injury casting, and more.
• Certification in Integrative Medicineusing curriculum developed by the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.
• Sports medicine training
• MultifacetedCentering Pregnancymodel for group prenatal care, designed to lower pre-term nativity rates.
• Urban and rural rotations, with opportunities forinternational rotations. View a blog from one of our former residents, Dr. Justin Corbin, about his international rotation in Samoa.

What is the "customs" in Community Medicine?

At Hennepin Healthcare, FMR Community Medicine is not but a rotation, but a rich experience embedded in our rotations, didactic and longitudinal curriculum equally well every bit the core mission of our infirmary and affiliated clinics.

Our residents connect with the community we serve by participating in customs outreach projects and developing an advocacy projection with their classmates that spans the full 3 years.

Curriculum Highlights

Interdisciplinary Team-Based Care

Whittier Clinic, the master clinic for Family Medicine residents, offers many services on-site:

• Acupuncture
• Addiction Medicine
• Aqui – Para- Ti (wrap effectually adolescent care for at risk Latinx youths)
• Chiropractic Care
• Community Wellness Workers
• Diabetes Education
• Lactation Consultants
• Diet
• Occupational Therapy
• PharmD consultation
• Physical Therapy
• On site psychologists
• Sleep Medicine
• Social Work
• Specialist consultation(Full general Surgery, Cardiology, OB/Gyn, Podiatry)
• Sports Medicine

Wellness

Resident wellbeing and resilience take been the focus of our program for nearly 20 years. Since many factors influence our sense of wellbeing, our model explores wellness beyond various domains: physical, psychological, spiritual, occupational, environmental, fiscal, social, and intellectual wellness. The bi-monthly, 90-minute health seminars aim to i) build skills to assistance residents rebalance and reduce the effects of stress in their life, and 2) provide experiential opportunities to implement strategies for restoration (e.g., mindfulness, breathing techniques, yoga, tai chi, walking meditation, cooking/diet). Additionally, interns get together quarterly for intern support grouping to explore experiences unique to the first-year resident experience. We also offer annual retreats and host a "Family & Significant Other Orientation" at the get-go of the academic year.

Other resources offered within the greater Hennepin Healthcare Graduate Medical Education system include mental and physical health care services, massage therapy services, a conditioning room, and financial planning services.

Simulation

All residents participate in our innovative curriculum that utilizes high and low tech interactive learning modalities (from high fidelity simulation and job trainers, to example-based learning sessions) to teach procedural and clinical skills, medical cognition, and promote inter-professional collaboration. These sessions are interspersed throughout the 3 years of residency. This curriculum enhances team-based intendance, addresses systemic problems past producing possible organization solutions, works to enhance patient rubber and ultimately improves patient intendance.

Additionally, our FM team participates in the multidisciplinary maternity intendance sims on Labor and Delivery.

Sports Medicine

Inside our sports medicine curriculum, residents larn from faculty with a CAQ in sports medicine. They rotate in the sports medicine clinics at our Whittier and Richfield Clinic locations. Additionally during the PGY-2 year, residents participate in a didactic course at the University of Minnesota. Residents may also assistance team physicians with local loftier schoolhouse sports teams.

Behavioral Science

The Behavioral Science curriculum focuses on integrating a biopsychosocial framework into medical care in efforts to meet the individual needs of patients and families.

Longitudinal curriculum:

• Monthly seminars during core briefing didactics
• Patient-Centered G Rounds
• Simulation training
• 1:1 observation
• Video Review
• Workshops (e.g., motivational interviewing)
• "Enhanced Care Clinic" (multidisciplinary instance conference)
• Project Repeat (multidisciplinary instance briefing for addiction & chronic pain)
• Week-long training in Addiction Medicine at Hazelden Betty Ford Treatment Middle

Block Rotation: Residents in their 2^nd or 3^rd year may choose constituent rotations with Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service and/or Habit Medicine.

Clinic-based Learning: Residents have opportunities to consult with and provide team-based intendance alongside several disciplines: psychologists, consulting psychiatrists, addiction specialist, social workers, a team of customs health workers, RN intendance director, and fiscal counselors.

Grouping visits

Residents receive training in medical group visits throughout their training. All residents facilitate a Centering Pregnancy and Centering Parenting group, in which they care for a group of prenatal patients through their pregnancies, deliveries, and into the showtime yr of well childcare.

Residents also piece of work with our Integrative Faculty during their group visits which include "Crumbling Gracefully" and other lifestyle-related groups. They also have the opportunity to partner with these faculty to design and implement a group visit in an area of special involvement during elective time.

Integrative Medicine

In improver to embedding principles of Integrative Medicine into our cadre curriculum, residents may participate in 200 hours of online grooming through the University of Arizona and completed certification in this field of study.

At the end of PGY-1, residents can opt for boosted, focused grooming in Integrative Medicine outside the core curriculum, using several formats and modalities during their PGY-two and PGY-3 years.

Clinic sessions:

• Performing integrative medicine interviews with patients;
• Populating functional timelines and matrix;
• Formulating patient-centered integrative health treatment programs; and
• Implementing integrative medicine longitudinally in their chief patients.

Personal study and self-care:

• Found for Functional Medicine (IFM) core lectures and videos;
• Identifying a personal focus area to study, such as women's wellness, herbal therapy, nutrition, or cardio-metabolic syndrome;
• Self-evaluation throughout the rotation on diet, digestion, exercise, energy, sleep, stress, support;
• Observing and experiencing the treatments of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners who work at Whittier Clinic, such as chiropractic, acupuncture, concrete therapy, and traditional healers;
• Participating in the "Integrative Medicine 4 The states" and Pillsbury Firm for customs service; and
• Delivering a journal club lecture on an integrative health topic.

Elderliness

Our longitudinal geriatric curriculum prepares our graduates to provide the highest quality care for older patients - an important skill, every bit more than 20 meg adults over age 85 are estimated to demand medical care by 2050.

In addition to the traditional core curriculum and direct patient care, residents tin opt for additional, focused training in Geriatrics towards the end of the PGY-1 yr, using a longitudinal arroyo during their PGY-2 and PGY-iii years. These residents have on boosted geriatric rotations and gain experience in nursing home assistants, hospice, and palliative care, and the skills needed to provide care to ambulatory older patients.

Procedures

All residents rotate in the Whittier Clinic procedure clinic, held twice each calendar week. Residents perform joint injections, basic and advanced skin procedures, vasectomies, and other procedures.

Elective Rotations including rural or international experiences

We offer a wide diversity of elective opportunities, encompassing any specialty clinic located at Hennepin Healthcare. If yous do not observe what y'all are looking for, our residents are able to create their own elective, under faculty guidance, to blueprint a learning experience specific to their interests. Additionally, nosotros have ongoing relationships with international sites in Tanzania and the Philippines, or residents may pursue opportunities away that they take researched on their own.

Didactic Opportunities

Family Medicine residents enjoy a weekly academic half solar day of protected fourth dimension (five hours) to focus on education, procedures, and research.

Our plan features a stiff emphasis on obstetrics, and the inclusion of integrative medicine, geriatric care, and dwelling health care principles beyond the curriculum.

Midweek Cadre Conference

• Protected half-twenty-four hour period of didactic, academic learning organized around organ systems

Special Workshops and Focused Learning Opportunities

• Interdisciplinary Simulation and Teaching Centre Learning (SIM)
  • Hands-on, situational learning to build teamwork and skills
  • Takes identify in Hennepin Healthcare'south land-of-the-art Interdisciplinary Simulation and Education Eye
• Staged Diabetes Direction
  • Full day workshop to learn progressive management of diabetes patients
• Gestational Diabetes Management
  • A one-half-mean solar day workshop to learn the management of patients with gestational diabetes
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Advanced Life Back up in Obstetrics (ALSO)
• Adolescent Workshop
  • Intensive preparation for PGY-2 residents
  • Peculiarly trained high schoolhouse students (generally those who are peer educators) role play teens visiting the doctor
  • Residents interview and interact with the teens, and then proceeds real-fourth dimension feedback from both the teens and faculty facilitators
• Integrative Medicine/Functional Medicine
  • 200-60 minutes self-learning form offered by University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine
  • Easily-on clinical experiences with fellowship trained Integrative Medicine faculty, including group visits
• CME days bachelor

About Our Faculty

Experienced Faculty Focused on Education
Seventeen cadre kinesthesia lead the Family Medicine residency, including geriatrics, integrative medicine, sports medicine, and international health. Many are nationally recognized leaders in their fields with extensive clinical and academic healthcare experience. More than 70% of our teaching kinesthesia completed Faculty Evolution Fellowships at the Academy of Minnesota, and all hold university appointments.

Program Leadership

• Allyson Brotherson, MD, Interim Chair, Department of Family and Customs Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare
• Charles Anderson, Md, MBA, Sports Medicine, Vice Chair- Departmental and Faculty Diplomacy
• Michelle Karsten, MD, Residency Program Director, Hennepin Healthcare
• Kimberly Petersen, Doctor, Associate Program Manager, Managing director of Family Medicine Inpatient Services, Hennepin Healthcare
• Marchion Hinton, PhD, Associate Program Director, Behavioral Medicine
• Praveen Tupakula, MBBS, Medical Director of Whittier Clinic

Program Faculty

• Analisa Calderon, MD
• Allyson Brotherson, Doc
• Chandra Cherukuri, MBBS, Geriatrics, Sleep Medicine
• David Councilman, Dr.
• Susan Haddow, Doc, ABIHM, Integrative Medicine
• Susan Hasti, MD
• Sandra McTavish, CNP, Geriatrics
• Kirsten Morissette, MD
• Ayham Moty, Doctor
• Nancy Newman, Medico, Behavioral Medicine
• Tsewang Ngodup, Dr., Geriatrics
• Kara Parker, MD, Integrative Medicine
• Lourdes Pira, Physician
• Jerome Potts, Medico
• Rachel Rapacz, Doc
• Stefanie Stevenson, Doctor
• Veronica Svetaz, MD, MPH, Adolescent Medicine
• Sadhana Vanka, MBBS, Sleep Medicine

Customs Preceptors

• Luis Barillas Schwank, MD
• Thomas Bracken, Dr.
• Subhadra Chereddy, Physician, MBBS
• Natalie Hayes, Doctor
• Michelle Haggerty, MD
• Maria Kaefer, Dr.
• Didi Koka, Physician
• Bernice Lee, Md
• Ken Joslyn, Md
• Gillian Mojica-Martinez, Doctor
• Michelle Schabert, MD

Rotations

View the Rotation Scheduleopens PDF file (PDF)

PGY-ane

The first year of the Family Medicine Residency programme prepares residents for inpatient medical and emergency intendance, including obstetrics and pediatrics, and sets the groundwork for essential outpatient skills and do. Our residents work collaboratively with other Hennepin Healthcare residency programs, building relationships and taking advantage of wide educational opportunities within our healthcare organization. Family Medicine residents besides teach medical students on the inpatient service.

The inpatient Family Medicine Servicesouth includes developed, pediatric, and obstetric patients from our ain practice at Whittier Clinic, as well every bit patients from three additional Hennepin Healthcare primary care community clinics.

At Whittier clinic, G1 residents develop skills in outpatient master care as they build their ain practice panel. We use the "Clinic Beginning" model which prioritizes continuity in the clinic by maintaining a stable clinic day that patients and residents tin can rely on.

Orientation occurs weekly during the start two months of training. During this time, residents participate in team-building and skill-building activities and learn essential skills for integration into the residency program.

PGY-2

PGY-2 residents take on a leadership role on the inpatient Family unit Medicine Service, monitoring the work of interns, and medical students and supervising the care of all inpatients under the guidance of faculty.

Outpatient experiences are prepare at Whittier Clinic, besides as at Hennepin Healthcare's specialty clinics, and include dermatologic, orthopedic, and gynecologic procedures as part of everyday practice. Our Preventive Medicine rotation highlights the year, where residents go personalized one-on-one teaching in clinic and spend i week at the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Eye. Ambulatory experiences include work at the Whittier procedure dispensary, where residents learn procedures mutual to family medicine.

During PGY-two, residents begin a longitudinal experience at Chateau Nursing Home, developing continuity relationships with geriatric patients. Most residents will besides brainstorm their Centering Pregnancy groups in the 2d year.

PGY-3

Our third yr focuses intensively on continuity clinic practice at the Whittier Clinic location. Residents build their knowledge and apply their skills to care and management of patients with complex healthcare needs.

Outpatient rotations take advantage of Hennepin Healthcare'south various specialty clinics to address common primary care problems, such as rheumatology, geriatrics, ENT, cardiology, gynecology and urogynecology, outpatient pediatrics, and adolescent medicine.

Specific third-year experiences include:

• Outpatient pediatrics, working with community pediatricians;
• Outpatient procedures, including colposcopy, orthopedic, and gynecologic procedures;
• Specialty clinics in geriatrics, palliative care, and long-term care;
• Specialty clinics in urology, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology;
• Longitudinal intendance of nursing dwelling patients and habitation visit intendance.

Residents maintain their inpatient skills with two months as the senior resident on the Family Medicine Service, with additional responsibilities for teaching and supervision of PGY-1 residents and medical students.

About Our Rotations

Various Rotations with Multiple Elective Options

Family Medicine Inpatient Service

One of the gems of our program, our team of Family Medicine residents and faculty run an independent, inpatient service drawing patients from 4 Hennepin Healthcare customs clinics. We care for pediatrics, developed medicine, obstetrics and newborns and actively manage all inpatient care plans, consults, and belch planning. Although our residents take master responsibleness for patient management, we have in-firm faculty 24 hours a twenty-four hours for support and didactics.

Obstetrics

Family Medicine residents gain valuable experience with low- and high-take a chance pregnancies during their rotations. Residents rotate through i block under the guidance of the OB section, with opportunities for managing obstetrics on all FMS blocks (full of 7) and during night call. Residents have opportunities to perform all OB procedures, including vacuum-assisted deliveries, and manage laboring patients with preeclampsia, preterm deliveries, and gestational diabetes.

All Family Medicine inpatient faculty practice obstetrics and several serve on multi-disciplinary committees to help foster better communication and patient care. Five faculty members are Avant-garde Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) instructors, including one nationally recognized ALSO Advisory Faculty.

Each resident takes the Besides form in PGY-1 and again in PGY-2 or PGY-3 to heighten their skill and improve conviction when handling labor and delivery emergencies. Our residents have successfully managed dystocia and postpartum hemorrhage, and routinely cite the ALSO course every bit increasing their ability to manage these situations.

Another highlight is training in Centering Pregnancy. All residents accept the opportunity to co-facilitate their ain prenatal group to learn this intendance model that has proven effective in lowering pre-term birth rates.

Pediatrics

Our training includes a wide multifariousness of experiences in Pediatric care. Including 2 inpatient rotations at Hennepin Healthcare and i at Minneapolis Children's Hospital, and a dedicated rotation in the Pediatric ED. We offer a specific outpatient rotation with focused learning in both general and adolescent Pediatrics, Centering Parenting grouping visits likewise equally a robust pediatric population in the Whittier clinic.

Inpatient Medicine

On the inpatient medicine service, our residents acquire alongside several other programs equally fully participating members of the team and complete an MICU experience in the G2 year.

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Source: https://www.hennepinhealthcare.org/medical-education-training/residency-programs/family-medicine-residency/

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