The UMKC School of Medicine Community and Family Medicine Residency offers a unique program that combines a community hospital setting with the opportunity to gain additional experience at an urban hospital. The three-year program provides residents with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a successful family medicine physician in a variety of practice environments. There are currently 36 residents in the program. The program is nationally recognized as a program of excellence, particularly in the area of obstetrics education.
Beginning in 2004, residents can also choose to complete an MBA as part of their residency. The MBA in Health Care Leadership for Physicians is the first combined residency/MBA in physician healthcare leadership in the country. Designed to fit the schedule of family medicine residents, classes are held at nearby Rockhurst University. The program helps provide future physicians with the skills in business management and leadership necessary in today’s healthcare environment.
Curriculum
Faculty/Scholarly Activity
Partner Hospitals
Accreditation
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Curriculum
The program’s schedule is organized by 4-week blocks, allowing for 13 different experiences each year.
First-year rotations are as follows: orientation, emergency medicine, pediatric inpatient service, pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine (three 4-week blocks), geriatrics, ent/urology, obstetrics (two 4-week blocks), and ophtho/ambulatory medicine.
During the second year, residents rotate through urgent care, community medicine, critical care, dermatology, surgery (two 4-week blocks), NICU, internal medicine (two 4-week blocks), orthopaedics, obstetrics (two 4-week blocks), and gynecology.
In the third year, residents have four electives and rotate through medicine subspecialty, neurology, pediatric ER, preceptorship, internal medicine (two 4-week blocks), cardiology, obstetrics, and ambulatory medicine.
For residents completing the combined residency/MBA program, approximately one-fourth of the program is completed through on-line course work. Classes are held on Wednesday evening and part of one weekend per month in year 2 and year 3. The duties and rotations for MBA residents are the same as for other residents, except call will not be scheduled during MBA class time.
Faculty/Scholarly Activity
Faculty members provide consultation and assistance for residents on a 24-hour basis. This allows for a better educational experience and facilitates excellence in patient care. Additionally, faculty members remain in the hospital all night four nights a week to provide immediate assistance to first-year residents. The faculty’s special areas of interest include women’s health/obstetrics and geriatrics.
Partner Hospitals
Community and Family Medicine residents receive a broad range of experience at four of our school’s partner hospitals, as well as another community institution, Research Medical Center:
Truman Medical Center Lakewood is home base for the residency program. The center is one of the few teaching hospitals in the United States to be entirely dedicated to teaching family medicine residents. The new Bess Truman Family Medicine Center (opened in March 2004), Lakewood Medical Pavilion, the H&R Block Birthing Center and the Lakewood Care Center serve a diverse population in all stages of their lives. Services provided include diabetes, rehabilitation, geriatrics, obstetrics and women’s health. TMC Lakewood has 102 patient care beds with an additional 212 long-term care beds in the Care Center. Family medicine residents and faculty physicians are the primary medical staff of the hospital.
Residents rotate through Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill, a 237-bed tertiary care hospital. TMC Hospital Hill provides a broad array of acute and outpatient services to a diverse patient population. The medical center is known for excellence in emergency and level I trauma services and also is recognized for programs in asthma, including serving as home to a nationally recognized Clinical Asthma Research Center; diabetes; HIV/AIDS services; obstetrics and high risk obstetrics; ophthalmology, and women's health. On an annual basis, the 237-bed medical center admits more than 11,500 patients, provides more than 212,000 outpatient visits and has over 54,000 emergency department visits. The Birthplace, the center's 22-bed labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum area, delivers more than 2,400 babies each year. TMC has 329 physicians on staff.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics provide the highest level of medical care and services, all tailored to meet the intricate needs of pediatric patients from birth to age 18. More than 40 pediatric subspecialties and 500 pediatric physicians provide clinical services, research and teaching efforts that serve children from western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The 241-bed hospital operates the only level I pediatric trauma center in the region and has one of the busiest neonatal/pediatric transport programs in the United States. It is nationally recognized for cardiac surgery, asthma/allergy/immunology, minimally invasive surgery, clinical pharmacology, nephrology and neonatology. Family practice residents function equally with pediatric residents as part of the health care team. Because it is limited entirely to pediatrics, residents can receive extensive patient care training in pediatrics, as well as educational opportunities equaled by few facilities in the United States.
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is a 629-bed tertiary care referral center serving a six-state region. Saint Luke's has established some of the finest specialized clinical services and support programs in the metropolitan area. Some of these include the Level I Trauma Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Mid America Heart Institute, Mid America Brain and Stroke Institute, regional arthritis center, sexual assault treatment center, and a comprehensive cancer program. Saint Luke's admits more than 20,000 patients annually with over 200,000 outpatient visits. Over 4,600 babies are delivered each year. Saint Luke's has 466 physicians on staff. The hospital recently received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2003.
Research Medical Center, located at Meyer Boulevard and Prospect Avenue, is a 508-bed facility that features a broad range of highly specialized, state-of-the-art services. Family practice residents receive their general surgical educational experience at Research Medical Center.
Accreditation
The program holds full accreditation from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. The next site visit is in September 2006.More Information
For more information about the residency program, please visit the Community and Family Medicine Residency website.
