Curriculum
The Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program follows a three-year curriculum designed to give residents a comprehensive clinical experience that will prepare them for future practice. We are excited that as our residency is growing to a 9-9-9 program. We are taking advantage of this opportunity to transition from 12-month curriculum to 13 block curricula.
First Year
Residents rotate through a variety of in-hospital clinical services, learning the fundamentals of inpatient management and gaining abundant procedural experience. Outpatient experience during the first year includes care of patients in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, on average one half-day each week. Residents see an average of three to six patients per half day.
Rotation Assignments
- Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service: 8 weeks
- Internal Medicine: 12 weeks
- General Surgery: 4 weeks
- Obstetrics: 8 weeks
- Orthopedics: 4 weeks
- Pediatrics (Inpatient): 8 weeks
Second Year
Residents spend more time in ambulatory medicine, while supervising interns in their daily in-house activities. Residents spend on average two half-days per week in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, seeing an average of six to nine patients per half day.
Rotation Assignments
- Critical Care: 1 month
- Emergency Medicine: 1 month
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service with Night Float: 3 months
- Family Medicine Clinic (outpatient): 1 month
- Elective: 1 month
- Neurology: 1/2 month
- Obstetrics: 1.5 months
- Pediatrics (inpatient): 1.5 months
- Pediatrics (outpatient): 1 month
- Practice Management: 1/2 month
- Community Service: once per year
On-Call Duty
First- and second-year residents share night float in the hospital setting during internal medicine blocks (approximately 6 weeks annually).
Third Year
Residents refine their experiences from the preceding two years. Residents spend more time in ambulatory medicine, working a minimum of three half-days per week in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, seeing an average of nine to 12 patients per half day.
Rotation Assignments
- Advanced Behavioral Health: 1/2 month
- Cardiology: 1/2 month
- Electives: 5.5 elective months
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service: 1.5 months
- Family Medicine Clinic: 1.5 months
- Gynecology: 1 month
- Ophthalmology: 1/2 month
- Pediatrics (Outpatient): 1 month
- Community Service: once per year
Longitudinal Experiences
- Behavioral Medicine
- Care of Nursing Home Patients (second and third year)
- OMT Clinics
- POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound)
- Quality Improvement/Scholarly Activity
- Community Service
- Simulation Lab