The goal of Saint Paul's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program is to offer a broad-based learning opportunity for medical graduates that will help equip them with the requisite knowledge, skills and attitude to function as an effective Family Physician in any setting. Such training will enable them to provide comprehensive and continuing health care that is acceptably accessible and appropriate to all members of their patient’s families. The practitioner in Family Medicine must be able to function within the economic, cultural and social environments and resources available to entire spectrum of clinical medicine and behavioral medicine sciences oriented to family and community health.
The program likewise aims to develop Family Physicians who will become leaders in the clinical, academic or teaching roles, and research within the broad field of Family Medicine.
The residency program combines both inpatient, ambulatory and community experiences throughout the three-year period. Ample learning opportunities exist in the form of conferences, didactic teaching sessions, case reports, journal appraisals, family case presentations, researches, community out reach and of course exposure to a variety of clinical situations under different rotations tailored according to year levels as follows:
ROTATION | FIRST YEAR | SECOND YEAR | THIRD YEAR | TOTAL MONTHS |
Internal Medicine | 3 months | 3 months | *General Electives | 6 (+3) |
Pediatrics | 3 months | 3 months | 6 (+3) | |
OB-Gynecology | 2 months | 2 months | 4 (+3) | |
General Surgery | 1 month | 2 months | 3 (+3) | |
OPD/ ER | 1 month | 1 month | 1 month | 3 |
Psychiatry | 1 month | 1 | ||
ENT/Ophthalmology | 1 month | 1 | ||
Community | 2 months | 2 | ||
Radio/Rehab | 1 month | 1 | ||
†Sub-Spec Elective | 1 month | 1 | ||
Family Health Care | 2 months | 2 | ||
TOTAL | 12 months | 12 months | 12 months | 36 months |
* General Electives: Choice of 2 specialties only, spending 3 months rotation in each
† Sub-specialty Elective: Choices of Toxicology (under the National Poison Management and Control Center), Hospice Care, Infectious Diseases, or Clinical Preceptorial under an active Family Medicine staff consultant
