About Us:  The Riverside Family Practice Center

    A significant part of your training occurs in the Family Practice Center, located at the hospital campus. The Center is divided into several physician office modules, which are staffed by residents and directors. In the first year, about 10 percent of your time is spent seeing patients in the Center. During your second year you will treat patients in the Center three half days per week, building a patient base that you carry through into the third year. In this final year, you will spend half of your time seeing patients in the Family Practice Center.  At the RFPC, you will be supported by our nurses and office staff.

     You will have a chance to treat people of every age and socioeconomic group. Approximately 65 percent of our patients are insured, belong to managed care plans, or pay their own bills. Another 15 percent are Medicare patients while 20 percent are Medicaid patients.

     Your work in the Family Practice Center will be complemented by in hospital training. You will spend eight months on the hospital's family practice service rotation admitting patients to every medical and surgical unit and seeing newborns in the two newborn nurseries. This rotation includes daily attending rounds and at least two didactic lectures per week. You will be responsible for patients who have a wide range of diseases.

     Procedures in the Family Practice Center include colposcopy, LEEP, IUD insertion, vasectomy, skin lesion biopsy and excision, joint injections, exercise stress testing, incision and drainage of abscesses, laceration repair, casting, electrosurgery, and cryotherapy.