Curriculum Overview

Our 3-year curriculum lets you choose the direction in which to grow.

Curriculum Components

The outpatient curriculum is built around robust team-based primary care with integrated population health, complex care management, behavioral health, and addictions services. The inpatient experience is a mix of community and tertiary care hospitals throughout Boston to provide a rigorous medical foundation. Our longitudinal Leadership and Improvement Science Curriculum grows residents to be leaders who are experts in change management. Our wellness curriculum moves health care past just the treatment of disease by promoting self-care in residents, patients and staff.

Specialties

In addition to all major specialties participating in our training program, residents can select Areas of Concentration in Maternity Care, Hospital Medicine, Sports Medicine, Integrative Health, Research/Scholarly Activity, Reproductive Health, Community Health, Geriatrics, Patient-Centered Medical Home, and five other concentrations. We also have addictions training and multiple group visit programs.

First Year

As a first year resident, you develop your diagnostic and therapeutic skills, under careful supervision, on each traditional inpatient service. You learn the capabilities of a busy community hospital as well as a tertiary medical center in Boston. You also care for your own patients at the Family Medicine Center in Malden. From the beginning, we place a strong emphasis on behavioral medicine with seminars and weekly support groups with members of your residency class.

Second Year

As a Second-year resident, you enter increasingly into the role of Family Physician. Office hours increase and many of the rotations focus on ambulatory care with opportunities to improve your procedural skills. Your experience in your "laboratory for learning" helps you to be an efficient, caring Family Physician. A practice management seminar brings your class together to prepare for your future.

Third Year

Finally, as a third-year resident, you refine your skills while preparing for the transition to practice. Faculty advisors assist in problem-solving. You function with more autonomy than previously. You have the opportunity to be Chief Resident, working closely with the full-time faculty as liaison for the residents. You will also have the opportunity to work in a diverse variety of private family physicians' offices to help you make choices concerning your future career after graduation.

BI = Beth Israel, Boston, MA
CH = Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA
EH = Everett Hospital, Everett, MA
TMC = Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
WH = Winchester Hospital, Winchester, MA

First Year courses

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics, Neonatal Resuscitation and Advanced Cardiac Life Support

Second Year courses

Hyponosis Workshop, Advanced Cardiac Life Support