Intern year schedule

First year residents spend much of their time working in the major specialty areas of internal medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics. First year residents also spend two half-day sessions per week seeing their own patients in the Family Medicine Center. The residency utilizes a “night float” system for evening coverage of inpatient family medicine and pediatric services, the team of which includes the intern and upper-level resident.

Required PGY-1 rotations include:

  • Family Medicine Service (adult inpatient) - 8 weeks

  • Pediatric Service (pediatric inpatient) - 8 weeks

  • Obstetrics - 8 weeks

  • Night Float (2 weeks at a time) - 6 weeks

  • Emergency Medicine (Indianapolis campus) - 4 weeks

  • Critical Care - 4 weeks

  • Internal Medicine Wards - 4 weeks

  • Gynecology (outpatient) - 4 weeks

  • Surgery (outpatient) - 4 weeks

  • POCUS - 2 weeks

Here is an example of a typical intern schedule. Each block is 4 weeks.

2nd and 3rd year schedules

Second year residents focus their education on training in various specialties via both core and elective experiences. Responsibilities increase for the care of obstetric patients, and residents cover in-house obstetric night and weekend call. Second year residents also cover in-house back-up call, where they supervise first year residents on their night float rotation. Second year residents also spend four half-day sessions per week in continuity clinic in the Family Medicine Center.

Third year residents have an increased number of electives, encouraging them to focus on personal interests and passions within family medicine. Responsibilities continue to increase as third year residents typically serve as chief resident during two months of Family Medicine Service. Third year residents also continue to spend four half-day sessions per week in their continuity clinic in the Family Medicine Center.

Required PGY-2 rotations include:

  • Family Medicine Service (Junior Chief) - 4 weeks

  • Pediatric Service (Chief) - 4 weeks

  • Outpatient Pediatrics - 4 weeks

  • Emergency Medicine (Mooresville campus) - 4 weeks

  • Practice Management - 4 weeks

  • Sports Medicine - 4 weeks

Required PGY-3 rotations include:

  • Family Medicine Service (Chief) - 8 weeks

  • Pediatric Service (Chief) - 4 weeks

  • Ambulatory Family Medicine (with urgent care) - 4 weeks

Core PGY-2 or PGY-3 Rotations:

  • Cardiology - 4 weeks

  • Community Medicine - 2 weeks

  • Dermatology - 4 weeks

  • Endocrinology - 4 weeks

  • Gastroenterology - 4 weeks

  • Neurology - 2 weeks

  • Occupational Medicine/Travel Medicine - 2 weeks

  • Palliative Care - 2 weeks

  • Psychiatry/Human Behavior - 4 weeks

  • Urology - 2 weeks

  • Selective 1 - 2 weeks

  • Selective 2 - 2 weeks

  • Electives (directed by high track requirements) - 30 weeks

Selective (Must Pick 2 to Meet Requirements):

  • Allergy

  • Colorectal

  • Infectious Disease

  • Nephrology

  • Plastic Surgery

  • Podiatry

  • Pulmonology

  • Rheumatology

  • Ophthalmology

  • Orthopedics

  • Otolaryngology

Additional Electives:

  • Any Listed Selective

  • Bariatrics

  • Geriatric Wards

  • Global Health

  • Hematology/Oncology

  • ICU

  • Lactation

  • Lifestyle Medicine

  • NICU

  • Nursing Home Administration

  • OB High Track at Lafayette

  • Pain Management

  • PM&R

  • POCUS

  • Preventative Care

  • Sleep Medicine

  • Teaching (with director approval)

  • Urgent Care

  • Wound Care

  • Home Study with director approval

  • Other electives with director approval

High Tracks

What is a High Track?

A High Track is a specialty area within family medicine that residents can further pursue clinical training in. This means that you will engage in more rotations and longitudinal experiences in this area of interest. In addition, you are encouraged to complete additional CME conferences and are provided supplemental funds to help cover these educational experiences. You also have the opportunity to present a noon conference to help facilitate peer-to-peer learning amongst your colleagues.

High Track Options

  • Academic Medicine/Teaching

  • Addiction Medicine (MAT Longitudinal Curriculum)

  • Geriatrics

  • Global Health

  • Lifestyle Medicine

  • Obstetrics

  • OMT

  • Sports Medicine

  • Rural/urban Health

  • Underserved Medicine

  • Women’s Health

  • Make Your Own - with director approval

Noon Conference

We host a daily noon conference Monday through Friday, comprising a variety of lectures and workshops. Didactics range from bread-and-butter family medicine topics, presentations from our collaborating specialists (e.g, cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, sports medicine, etc.), outreach from local social services, and many other topics. We have reoccurring lecture series for Medical Ethics, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, Quality Improvement, IDEA, etc.

All first year residents will present two M&M conferences regarding lessons learned from interesting clinical presentations.

All second year residents will present at least one journal club lecture on an academic area of interest in lieu of scholarly activity.

We also encourage peer and collaboration learning: residents will present on topics pertaining to their individual high tracks or other areas of interest within family medicine.

Sample Noon Conference Schedule

Additional Benefits

Our clinic has an in-person clinical pharmacist, who can help co-manage patients with diabetes, hypertension, and tobacco use disorder. Our pharmacist is also a wonderful resource to discuss pharmacological questions and scenarios.

Our clinic has three in-person social workers! Our social workers are a wonderful resource to our patients, and assist with many barriers informed by the social determinates of health. They also help to operate our in-house food pantry, which provides frozen/refrigerated food, non-perishable food, and toiletries to patients.

Our clinic also has an in-house psychologist, Dr. Marlyssa Fillmore. Dr. Fillmore teaches psychology practicum students each year, which is a great benefit to our clinic as this helps provide behavioral therapy and psychological testing to our patients. She also leads the residency behavioral health and wellness curricula, and conducts regular wellness activities and resident check-ins.

Our clinic has two procedure rooms, in which we learn gynecological procedures (e.g., IUD placement, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy), sports medicine procedures (e.g., injections), dermatologic procedures (e.g., punch biopsies, shave biopsies, lesion excision), and many others. We have several ultrasound devices, which are utilized to perform obstetric ultrasounds, ultrasound-guided injections, and other specific diagnostics as part of our POCUS curriculum.

We have several OMT tables for which we provide osteopathic manipulative treatment to our patients.

We offer a variety of specialty half-day clinics within our clinic, which are staffed by our own faculty and collaborating specialists. These includes sports medicine clinic (Franciscan Sports Medicine staff), Hepatitis C/hepatology clinic (gastroenterology staff), MAT clinic (addiction medicine staff), OMT clinic, and dermatology clinic (dermatology staff). We also offer the opportunity to teach OMT to medical students in collaboration with local medical schools.