- All residents spend multiple dedicated two-week sessions recurring throughout the three years in our block schedule. Ambulatory block sessions are split up into morning and afternoon. All residents will have several sessions per week dedicated to their continuity clinic patients, a panel of their own patients for whom they act as the primary care physician. Additional patient care sessions may be spent in general ambulatory/urgent care or other sub-specialty outpatient clinics. Thursday mornings during ambulatory blocks are dedicated educational half days. For our PGY1 class, Wednesday mornings during ambulatory blocks are dedicated to scholarship/skills sessions which teach the fundamentals of reviewing medical literature, QI, patient safety and other key concepts that will help them become successful throughout their training.
- Educational experiences on ambulatory blocks include Yale Office-Based Medicine topics with facilitated discussion, quality improvement/panel management time, lectures on appropriate documentation and medical billing and coding, and a curriculum on telephone medicine management, with the PGY2 and PGY3 residents taking at-home telephone call for the clinics for several days during the rotation. Residents are encouraged to complete their required quality improvement project based on their own clinical data. Recent projects included looking at immunization rates for our clinic population, cancer screening rates, and the quality of care delivered to our patients with heart failure and diabetes.