Family Medicine Residency

This Family Medicine Residency Program has reorganized its curriculum to focus on the use of web-based instructional modules and the use of multidisciplinary teams.  Through the use of longitudinal threads and block rotations, this program is designed to:

• Create a PCMH as well as a Patient Safety and Quality of Care curriculum:  Offers instruction on a conceptual framework, developing and implementing case-based learning, and incorporating concepts in practical team-based exercises.
• Use PCMH Principles, specifically a team based approach, to improve chronic illness care and preventive service delivery: Improves both the use of chronic illness and preventive service protocols using a team based approach and increased patient portal use in an underserved population. Works to reduce access bariers among patients with transportation difficulties or other issues via training modules, team based care, and linkages to electronic health records and community resources. 
• Partner with community agencies to deliver care in the non-office setting, with a focus on improving chronic illness outcomes, sociability, and maintain independence for a geriatric population: Specifically, the program has created training modules that offer instruction in home care of the frail elderly patients as well as improved care of patients with chronic illnesses.  These modules utilize electronic health records and introduce the use of remote data entry and monitoring.  Through a new partnership with the University of South Alabama Center on Generational Studies, the training physicians are also learning a multidisciplinary team based approach to improving social engagement and maintaining independence when working with elderly patients. 

The program was evaluated by NCQA during its second year of PCMH transformation and is in line to receive level 3 certification by December 2013.