Curriculum

Throughout the 36-month Family Medicine Residency Program here at Wright State University there is ample flexibility through electives and individually structured learning experiences to meet your specific educational goals. Advanced exposure to hospitalist medicine, obstetrics, sports medicine and geriatrics is also available. The curriculum meets or exceeds all requirements of the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Residency Year 1

The first year focuses on inpatient clinical experiences. You will rotate at Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) for inpatient medicine as well as the Dayton Children's Hospital (DCH) for pediatrics inpatient and ED.  Adult ED is at Miami Valley Hospital North, the little sibling of MVH. You will care for your personal patient panels in your selected outpatient site one to two half days per week. The first year is comprised of the following rotations:

• FM Ambulatory (1 block)
• FM Inpatient Service (3 blocks)
• Neonatology (1 block)
• Cardiology Inpatient (1 block)
• Inpatient Pediatrics (2 blocks)
• Adult ED (1 block)
• Pediatrics ED (1 block)
• OB (2 blocks) 
• Plastic Surgery (1 block)

Residency Year 2

In your second year, you will make the transition toward a more extensive outpatient care experience and will spend two to three half days per week caring for your private patients in the office setting. The second year is comprised of the following rotations:

• FM Ambulatory (1 block)
• FM Inpatient Service (2 blocks)
• Outpatient Pediatrics (1 block)
• Dermatology/ENT (1 block)
• Adult ER (1 block)
• Geriatrics and Hospice (1 block)
• Gynecology (1 block)
• ICU/Pulmonary (1 block)
• OB Advanced (1 block)
• Orthopedics (1 block)
• Psych/Chemical Dependency (1 block)
• Elective (1 block)

Residency Year 3

In your final year of training, you complete a capstone experience of supervising our Family Medicine Inpatient Service including supervision of junior residents and medical students. Most outpatient rotations consist of four to five half days per week in the office of a sub-specialist and three to four half days per week caring for your patients in your office. Third-year residents also see continuity patients in a private community family medicine office one half day per week.  The third year is comprised of the following rotations:

• FM Ambulatory (1 block)
• FM Inpatient Chief (2 blocks)
• Community Medicine (1 block)
• Sports Medicine (1 block)
• Geriatrics Advanced (1 block)
• Practice Management (1 block)
• School-based Health (1 block)
• Electives (5 blocks)

Didactic lectures and workshops occur during a four-hour block on Wednesday afternoons of every week throughout all three years of residency training. 

1 block = 4 weeks