Family Medicine Inpatient Service

The outpatients you see in your family medicine clinic will experience continuity of care as you manage their conditions in an inpatient setting.

Each of our affiliated hospitals has a family medicine inpatient service that provides acute care to patients we see in our office practice. During this rotation, you’ll work with family medicine faculty and residents to care for these patients.

This includes:

conducting initial and repeat evaluations
admitting patients
deciding on a care plan
performing basic procedures
consulting with other specialists
planning for your patients’ discharge and continued care

You’ll come to the hospital for newly admitted patients, deliveries or unexpected changes in your patients’ condition, and you’ll tend to patients in special care units.

You’ll develop teamwork skills while rotating on this service, working with other residents to preround, write progress notes, discuss patient care issues and develop care plans.

As you progress through residency, you’ll advance from delivering care while under direct faculty supervision to delivering care independently. Your caseload will increase, and you’ll be charged with more critically ill or challenging patients. By your third year, you’ll assume a supervisory role and maintain responsibility for all patients on service.

Throughout your rotation, we schedule frequent teaching conferences with faculty from family medicine and medical subspecialties.