USC/California Hospital
Family Medicine Residency

Longitudinal Curricula

Behavioral Sciences:
Our Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Anthony Zamudio supervises the training of the residents in the Behavioral Sciences by providing one-on one supervision of patient contacts, videotape review, home visits and didactic sessions. Activities are planned for all three years of the residency including components within the introduction to Family Practice Center/Community Medicine rotation and a 2-week rotation in Chemical Dependency in the first year. Second year residents complete a month-long Psychiatry rotation in the Psychiatric Emergency Room and a 2-week block on Human Behavior working directly with Dr. Zamudio.

Geriatrics:
In addition to a month-long rotation in Geriatrics, the Geriatric curriculum consists of didactic sessions, home visits supervised by a faculty member and continuous care of patients in skilled nursing facilities, supervised by the physician faculty.

Practice Management:
The Practice Management curriculum is taught throughout the three years of the residency program. We have developed a longitudinal curriculum in "Managing Care", which is designed to equip resident learners to be expert managers of care in the rapidly changing US health care delivery environment. The curriculum design emphasizes experiential learning in the context of day to day patient care. The experiential curriculum is built upon a foundation of monthly 90-minute didactic/discussion sessions covering more than a dozen topics such as Medical Informatics, Evidence-Based Medicine, The Business of Medicine, Continuous Performance Improvement, and many others. Residents also participate in our monthly Family Health Center Practice Meeting, in which clinic finance, provider profiles, and clinical strategies are discussed. Individual mentoring in CV preparation, career counseling, and contract evaluation are provided by the clinical faculty.

Family Medicine Conferences:
A schedule of conferences that addresses all areas of curriculum is held in the Family Health Center conference room. Each Friday afternoon, all residents are excused from their rotations to convene for a three-hour session to discuss X-rays, EKGs, procedures, patients and other topics.