Ambulatory Block Clinic: Educational Objectives

The ambulatory block rotation is intended to provide residents with an educational, academically rigorous and enjoyable experience, whether their intended careers are in primary care or critical care.

From the Residency Curricular Guide (click here for full text and full ambulatory curricular description)

Goals and Objectives

The main goal of the outpatient clinic experience is to teach residents the comprehensive and continuous care of ambulatory patients, focusing on the management of acute and chronic problems in a diverse population. The care of the "whole patient" will be emphasized, paying special attention to concurrent psychosocial issues, including the teaching of cultural awareness, addiction medicine, and domestic violence screening. During the experience, residents will also learn about the practice of evidence-based medicine, enabling them to make rational and cost-effective clinical decisions for their patients. Principles of health promotion and disease prevention and screening will also be a major component of the curriculum.

Objectives

• Residents will be able to demonstrate the ability to provide compassionate, efficacious, and efficient, patient care to patients in the ambulatory setting
• Residents will demonstrate the ability to care for ambulatory patients with acute and chronic medical conditions
• Residents will demonstrate willingness to continuous improve and assess their ambulatory knowledge base and clinical practice
• Residents will review the principles of epidemiology, pathophysiology, therapeutics, and prevention in the management a diverse set of illnesses
• Residents will demonstrate an understanding of, and a willingness to help improve the various ambulatory resources available to the our patients
• Residents be able to appropriately access the services of the multi-disciplinary team members for the care of their patients (social workers, nurses, medical assistants, patient reps, home visit nurses, physical therapist, nutritionist, interpreters, etc.)
• Residents will demonstrate experience in retrieving and critically reviewing the medical literature and apply concepts of clinical epidemiology and statistics
• Residents will perform office-based procedures (such as joint aspiration and injection) in both the primary and referral setting
• Residents will become familiar with the working of an office practice, including scheduling/billing concepts, telephone medicine, preoperative evaluation, consultation and walk-in care
• Residents will learn the practice of evidence based medicine enabling the them to make rational clinical decisions, individualized to the needs of their patients
• Residents will understand the approach to, and care of the "whole patient".
• Residents will demonstrate at all times, ethical, humanistic, respectful, empathetic, culturally competent, and professional demeanors in all their interactions with patients, staff, and peers.