Family Medicine Didactics

Didactics

Residents at conference

UCSF Fresno Family Medicine offers regularly scheduled didactic sessions. This time is set aside for in-depth discussions and presentations on primary care topics, practice management, behavioral science, and procedural skills. Family medicine faculty and residents are regular contributors to these lectures. We also often invite providers from other specialties to give lectures, many of which involve topics requested by the residents.

The general schedule for our didactic sessions is as follows.

Noon Lectures:

  • Thursdays during lunch time for all residents
    • 1st Thursdays of the month: Inpatient case conference
    • 2nd Thursday of the month: Journal Club
    • 3rd Thursday of the month: Resident support group
    • 4th Thursday of the month: Various rotating topics

 

Educational Half-days:

  • PGY-1: Fourth Tuesday afternoon of each 4-week block
    • Behavioral lecture
    • Board review
    • Inpatient, obstetric, and primary care topic lectures
    • Procedure workshops
  • PGY-2 and 3: Every Thursday afternoon
    • First Thursday of the month: EBM, geriatrics, nursing home
    • Second Thursday of the month: Resident/resident meeting, lecture series, M&M
    • Third Thursday of the month: Resident/faculty meeting with chiefs, lecture series
    • Fourth Thursday of the month: varied lecture series

 

Morning Report:

  • FM inpatient service: Every Tuesday and Friday morning

Workshops:

All residents will participate in various workshops and training during the regularly scheduled educational half-day. Examples of some of the workshops our residents participate in include:

  • Nexplanon Training: All interns will get certified to place Nexplanons during there intern year. 
    This session is typically lead by a UCSF-Fresno FCM faculty member that has been certified as a Nexplanon trainer.
  • Casting/Splint Workshop: During this workshop, residents learn the basics of splint and casting. It’s a hands-on workshop where they will practice the skills that they learn. 
  • Papaya workshop: During this workshop, residents will use a papaya to learn various gynecologic skills including IUD placements and endometrial biopsies. 
  • Laceration Repair Workshop (OB)
  • ALSO Training: As all of our residents work on L&D at various points of their residency, we provide ALSO training to all of our interns. This training is put on by our family medicine faculty that practice OB.
  • Simulation Lab: Residents have access to the UCSF Fresno simulation lab. Here, they can practice procedures such as paracentesis, thoracentesis, knee injections, etc.

Family Medicine Residents practicing setting casts on eachother.

Family Medicine Residents practice medicine on papayas.