Curriculum & Call Schedule

Curriculum

PGY-I

During your first year, you will work mainly at Crozer-Chester Medical Center on various inpatient services including medicine, labor and delivery, and ICU. Throughout the year you will have anywhere from one to three half days per week in the office seeing your own panel of patients. You will also spend three months on our own family medicine inpatient service at Taylor Hospital.

PGY-II/III

During your second two years, you will transition from inpatient to outpatient medicine. You will spend at least 3-4 half days per week as a PGYII and 4-5 half days per week as a PGYIII seeing your own panel of patients in the office. The remainder of your time will be spent rotating through different specialty offices such as orthopedics, endocrinology, and cardiology. You will complete your continuity deliveries at Crozer Chester Medical Center. You will also be responsible for our Center For Family Health inpatient service at Taylor Hospital for 8 weeks of days and 3 to 4 weeks of nights during PGYIII.

Longitudinal Experience

Family Medicine Center: 
PGY-I (1-3 ½ days/week) 
PGY-II (3 to 4 half days/week) 
PGY-III (4 to 5 half days/week)

Behavioral Science Didactics:
PGY-I, II & III (4-5 hours per month)

Resident Scholarly Project:
PGY-I, II & III

Geriatrics/Nursing Home:
PGY-II & III (Follow 2 to 3 Nursing Home patients with monthly visits)

Home Visits:
PGY-II & III (Follow 2 to 3 home patients)

Family-Centered Obstetrics:
PGY-II & III (Follow at least two prenatal patients to delivery)

Specialty Tracks

Urban Underserved Track
Residents who chose this option will spend about 75% of their clinic time in our Upper Darby office, which is a Federally Qualified Health Center. The remaining 25% of their clinic time is spent at our Springfield office.

Sports Medicine Pathway
Residents following this pathway can take advantage of our monthly sports medicine clinic, work closely with the sports medicine fellows as well as cover local sporting events including the Philadelphia Rock and Roll marathon and the Keystone state games. Residents can gain training room experience through Upper Darby High school working with the athletic trainer in treating and diagnosing injuries sustained by high school athletes.  Residents can also attend a weekly sports medicine lecture series that is attended by the entire sports medicine department, including fellows, athletic trainers, and sports medicine attendings. These lectures include workshops on joint injections and valuable diagnostic imaging modalities such as ultrasound.

Call Schedule

PGY-I

Short call every 4-5 nights on Internal Medicine. There are some weekend calls on Peds, OB/GYN and Surgery. No call on GYN, Community Medicine and ER. Peds and OB have 2 weeks of night float and ICU has 1 week of night float. You will have some 24 hour and some 12-hour calls while at Taylor Hospital on our family medicine inpatient service. This will not be more than once per week.

PGY-II/III

The OB call resident is responsible for any OB traige cases or laboring patients at Crozer Chester Medical Center that evening. OB call make be taken from home. When senior residents are rotating on our inpatient service they will do two days of 24 hour call and one 12 hour call over for weeks. When not on our inpatient service, they may be assigned to FHC backup call. 

Night Float: Senior level residents also partake in night float. Second year residents do 3-4 weeks of night float and third-year residents do 2 weeks of night float.

Electives in PGY-III

2.5 Half-Time Electives: Half-time on elective that you choose, half-time in the Center seeing patients, attend all lectures, and participate in evening office hours/call schedule.

1.5 Away Electives: Full-time on elective that you choose, no office hours, call or lecture responsibilities.

Program Highlights

Patient Center Medical Home

Federally Qualified Health Center Experience

Opposed and Unopposed Program

Suburban and Urban Office Sites

Classroom Month

Complex Health and Social Needs Fellowship

Sports Medicine Fellowship

Teaching Experience Leading Medical Student Group Lectures

Lifestyle Medicine

Specialty Clinics:

• Dermatology Clinic
• Gynecology Clinic
• OMM clinic
• Psychiatry Clinic
• Sports Medicine Clinic
• Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Clinic

Contact Us:

For more information, please contact:

Crozer Health Family Medicine Residency
1260 East Woodland Avenue, Suite 200
Springfield, PA 19064

Phone: 610-690-4471

E-mail: fmresidency@crozer.org