Faculty Chair:

Dolores Gomez, MD

Contacts:

Dolores Gomez, MD
Danielle Fitzsimmons-Pattison, MD
Amanda Provencio, MD

Required Experiences:

All PGY1 residents will attend a one month orientation covering all of the aspects of the content listed below. All areas covered during the one month rotation are required and must be made up if missed.

Weekly Schedule PGY1:

Requirements:

AOA

No specific requirements

ACGME

No specific requirements

Description of Rotation or Educational Experience

Orientation is a four week process starting at the beginning of the first academic year of residency training at the Southern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program. The initial three weeks consist of discussions, demonstrations, shadowing, and introductions to all appropriate areas of the clinic and hospital and to the personnel involved; the fourth week takes includes shadowing in the inpatient and outpatient areas. Those residents entering the program after the first year are oriented individually.

Expectations:

Residents:

Residents are expected to arrive on time and to dress and act in a professional manner. It is expected that the residents will be respectful of the office space and personnel.

Faculty:

Orientation is coordinated by the Academic Coordinator and the Program Director. Individual presentations are given by the Clinic Director, Head Nurse, Program Director, members of the faculty and appropriate ancillary personnel and community leaders. Shadowing is done in the hospital and clinic with upper level residents and faculty members.

Call:

There is no call specific to this rotation.

Content

Residency
- Introduction and welcome
- Family Medicine history and survival pearls
- Introduction to the ACGME
- Rotations, vacation policy, conference requests, evaluations, resident manual
- Chief Resident Orientation
- Corporate Compliance
- Laptop training and information
- Introduction to Behavioral Medicine
- Introduction to Research
- NRP
- PALS
- ACLS
- BLS
Clinic
- Front office
  - Introduction of personnel and job descriptions
  - Sources of healthcare funding
  - Reimbursement methods
  - Regulatory environment
- Back office
  - Introduction of personnel and job descriptions
  - Patient movement through the clinic
    - registration of new and established pts
    - appointment scheduling
    - encounter form completion
    - scheduling procedures
  - Billing and coding
  - Medical records
    - review of EMR
    - chart flow
  - Clinic processes
    - teams
    - nurse/physician assignments
    - room flag system
    - lab and Xray orders and reports
    - referrals
    - phone messages
    - Rx refills
    - On-call notes
- Other
  - Community healthcare organizations and resources
  - Risk/risk management
Hospital
- Introduction to MMC
- Employee Health Services-OSHA
- Human resources
- Employee Assistance Program
- Risk Management
- Health Information Management
- OB-L & D
- Introduction to Radiology
- Case Management
- Safety
- Core measures
Other
- Scavenger hunt