What's new at the Saginaw Family Medicine Residency?

We have made some significant, new changes that we believe will enhance our educational program in Saginaw. Take a Look!

• The department of Family Medicine has organized clinical care into a series of three teams, with each team consisting of 5 residents and 1-2 faculty. The concept of these teams to create a smaller working group within the department to provide for patient care and allow the team to better serve the patients assigned to that team. Graduating residents will reassign those patients to team members and thus provide continuity across the smaller team. Faculty and residents are available to their assigned patients and cross cover each other when on conference, vacation or out of the office. This has increase our patient satisfaction scores.
  
  
• Grand Round lectures and Topical lecture series have been combined into a single academic morning. These will all occur on Thrusday mornings and allow for better scheduling and attendance by all residents.
  
  
• We have a newer facility that houses our Generations Family Care Center. Click here for photos of our center.
  
  
• We have reduced our night of call for the residents. We combined two inpatient services, thereby reducing call by over 60 nights of the three years of training. We believe the new streamlined services will continue to provide great patient exposure, but the reduced hours of service will enhance resident educational opportunities. We have eliminated call during second and third year elective months to improve those learning experiences.

• We have reduced resident fatigue by sending residents home at noon following call nights, when on our inpatient services.

• We are beginning implementation in EMR.

• Covenant Hospital has recently implemented an EMR system called EPIC.

• We have established an awards program for resident presentations called the Excellence in Grand Rounds Awards.

• We have expanded our Geriatric Assessment Clinic to increase our resident exposure and training in geriatric care.

• The Department has partnered with several medical journals, providing an opportunity for residents to publish articles nationally.

• We have presented a number of all-day conferences for and by our residents, including skin and soft tissue surgery, colposcopy, and gynecologic procedures.

• Work with Hospice and Palliative care agencies to enhance End-of-Life care.