Emory Family Medicine Residency Program

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Emory Family MedicineResidency Program
Informational Brochure 2004-2005

• Produced by
• Emory
• Family Medicine

4555 North Shallowford Road, Suite 100, Atlanta,
GA 30338 Phone [phone] Fax (678)
530-9014 e-mailsprice_at_learnlink.emory.edu
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PHILOSOPHY

•   The goal of the Emory Family Medicine
  Residency Program is to train excellent family
  physicians to practice full-spectrum family
  medicine in the medical environment of the
  future. We teach clinical and procedural skills
  that allow graduates to practice in any setting,
  including rural or remote sites. Residents may
  select from a variety of training opportunities
  and environments that allow them to plan for the
  specific needs of their anticipated future
  practices. This learner-directed philosophy
  ensures that graduates have the opportunity to
  become clinically competent to practice in any
  setting they may choose.

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Introduction (cont)

• In our Family Medicine centers and on the
  inpatient service, the residency emphasizes the
  entire health care team. By training with
  psychologists, health educators, pharmacists,
  consultants, and family practice physicians,
  residents develop their patient counseling skills
  to include an emphasis on healthy lifestyles.

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Introduction (cont)

• We emphasize the importance of all health
  care providers as teachers and administrators.
  Faculty members teach residents and often learn
  from them residents teach each other physicians
  and other health care providers benefit from each
  others' wisdom and all groups learn from and
  teach their patients. Residents develop
  administrative and managerial skills for their
  own practices and for managed care environments.

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Introduction (cont)
Emory Dunwoody Medical Center

• Administered by Emory University School of
  Medicine, the Family Medicine Residency Program
  hospitalizes patients at Emory Dunwoody Medical
  Center, a hospital located in suburban Atlanta.
  Dunwoody features a mix of primary, secondary and
  tertiary patient care. The family practice
  residency is the only residency program based at
  Emory Dunwoody Medical Center.

The family practice residency is completely
unopposed at the Emory Dunwoody Medical Center.
Some rotations occur at nearby hospitals and
clinics in order to optimize learning
opportunities. These hospitals include Grady
Memorial Hospital, Childrens Healthcare of
Atlanta-Egleston Hospital, Hugh Spalding, and
Crawford Long Hospital.
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Introduction (cont)

• We look forward to helping residents
  anticipate the future of medicine and shape their
  residencies to meet their own goals. Most of all,
  we want residents to feel the excitement of
  family medicine and to feel confident taking
  their place in assisting patients in their well
  being.

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Introduction (cont)

• The Emory Family Medicine Residency Program
  is committed to training excellent family
  physicians, capable of practicing full spectrum
  family medicine in the 21st Century. We
  accomplish this by carefully incorporating
  clinical activity, education, and scholarly
  activity within the clinical setting of the Emory
  Clinic and the academic setting of Emory
  University School of Medicine.

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Introduction (cont)

• Our 2 Family Medicine Centers (South DeKalb
  and Dunwoody) constitute the outpatient services
  of the Emory Family Medicine Residency Program,
  an organization passionately committed to
  patients' health through the sharing of knowledge
  and the implementing of breakthrough health care.
  

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Introduction (cont)
We believe in training our residents to educate
themselves, their patients, and each other, as we
deliver health care to our patients. We believe
in educating our residents as adult learners.
It is incumbent upon them to do self-evaluation
to assess their goals, needs and progress. With
the help of their faculty advisors,
residents set objectives based on these goals and
decide what experiences are needed to achieve
them as well as how to seek out knowledge as part
of continuing medical education.
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Introduction (cont)

• In turn, the residents, while caring for
  their patients, are taught to educate them about
  their health care and guide them as the patients
  make decisions regarding their own health care.
  As the residents progress through their training,
  they are taught and encouraged to educate each
  other, other health care providers, and the
  community through conferences, lectures, and
  community talks.

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Introduction (cont)

• Family physicians actively lead the
  teaching of residents in formal settings such as
  precepting, lectures, and on ward rounds.
  However, we believe that one of the most
  important methods of teaching is by being role
  models for the residents. The Family Medicine
  faculty set the standard all members of the
  faculty are providers of comprehensive care to
  the individual and the family. They see patients
  in the Family Practice Centers, the hospital,
  perform procedures, and continue to deliver
  maternity services.

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Introduction (cont)

• Behavioral Medicine faculty, well-versed in
  family systems, family theory, and counseling,
  assist by providing additional role modeling and
  teaching in behavioral medicine and mental
  health. Excellent support staff provide a model
  for clinical practice, and include nursing and
  medical assistants as well as physician
  assistants these individuals participate in the
  education of residents by guiding them through
  the process of seeing patients in the Family
  Medicine Clinics, and by modeling how the Emory
  Clinic attends to individual patients and
  families' needs.

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Introduction (cont)

• The Family Medicine faculty also guide the
  residents in how to be part of the health care
  team, demonstrating and teaching how to interact
  with consultants in other specialties, social
  services, nutrition services, physical and
  occupational therapy, and community resources.

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Introduction (cont)

• The residency exists within the Department
  of Family and Preventive Medicine, part of the
  Emory University School of Medicine. As part of
  the Emory academic tradition, the residency
  strives to make contributions to the discipline
  of Family Medicine and other disciplines through
  research and scholarly activities as well as
  through participating in the education of other
  members of the medical community. It is through
  the careful combination of clinical care and
  academic endeavors that our enthusiastic faculty
  train Emory Family Medicine residents to become
  providers in the 21st Century.