Curriculum

Residents of the Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Delnor learn directly from attending physicians in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Weekly conferences cover a broad range of topics that span the full-spectrum of family medicine. Residents are exposed to ambulatory procedures in teaching workshops and clinic. In addition, our residents participate in small group learning emphasizing scholarly activity, quality improvement and population health. Residents also present hospital and clinic Grand Rounds.

Our residents experience strong ambulatory training combined with an innovative longitudinal learning curriculum. Rather than limit rotational experiences within a single year of your training, our longitudinal schedule allows for more repetition throughout your 3 years so you don’t lose your skills between each experience. This also allows for residents to experience the same core specialties at different experience levels of their training. By breaking up these experiences into smaller chunks, you learn how to manage patients across both inpatient and outpatient domains and across all specialties, minimizing burnout, maximizing learning, and developing your identity as a family physician.

PGY-1

· Inpatient Adult Service

· Ambulatory and Sub-specialty Pediatrics

· MSK – Sports Medicine

· Dermatology

· Wound

· Inpatient Pediatric Service

· Obstetrics Night

· Obstetrics Day

· Gynecology

· Pulmonology and Sleep

· Cardiology

· Emergency Department (Adult)

· Radiology

· Gastroenterology

· Bariatrics

· Practice Management

· FMP Clinic

PGY-2

· Inpatient Night Float

· Inpatient Adult Service

· Emergency Department (Adult and Pediatric)

· Geriatrics & Home Care

· Ambulatory and Sub-specialty Pediatrics

· Elective

· Orthopedics (MSK)

· Surgery

· ENT

· Ophthalmology

· Community Medicine - Tri City Health

· Behavioral Health

· Infectious Disease

· Palliative

· Endocrinology and Nutrition

· Nephrology

· Nursing Home

· FMP Clinic

PGY-3

· Inpatient Adult Service

· Inpatient Pediatric Service

· Emergency Department (Adult and Pediatric)

· Ambulatory and Sub-specialty Pediatrics

· Geriatrics

· Gynecology Oncology

· Dermatology

· Rheumatology

· Endocrinology

· Elective

· Community Medicine – Tri City Health

· Urology

· Cardiology

· Neurology

· Population Health

· Nursing Home

· FMP Clinic

Didactics: McGaw at Delnor hospital follows a longitudinal schedule. We rotate lectures every 1.5 years. Didactics are held Thursday afternoons and are protected time for all residents to attend.

Our lectures are given by a mix of community attendings/specialists, core faculty, and residents.
We cover topics that are relevant to our clinic (ie: introduction to wellness/annual visits, chronic pain medicine), inpatient medicine (such AKI, introduction of palliative medicine), and the family medicine boards.
Dedicated board review questions are integrated into didactics to help our residents feel more prepared for in training and certification exams
Some of our didactics time is dedicated to department-wide lectures that includes all three of the McGaw Family Medicine residencies, such as Program-wide journal club, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, Annual Research Day.

Team Time: Held every Friday morning, these sessions are geared towards learning the “how” and “why” of medicine that are sometimes overlooked in traditional biomedical teaching. Below are some examples of the topics we cover throughout the year.

Integrative Medicine and Wellness (Narrative Medicine, diet and nutrition, complementary and alternative medicine)
Community Medicine and Public Health
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (LGBTQIA, unconscious bias & cultural competence training)
Career Development (CV writing, professional membership benefits, Interpreting Financials)
Health Systems Management (EPIC training, Quality Measures, Medicare/Medicaid, Billing and Coding, Monthly RMG Staff Meeting)
Professional Development (leadership, how to give feedback, how to teach, contract negotiations, etc.)
Scholarship and Quality Improvement (RedCap, eIRB, literature review, epidemiology & more)