Goals

Overall, our goal is to train well-rounded family physicians. There's no question that a graduate of the Sparrow/MSU Family Medicine Residency Program will be able to supply excellent comprehensive continuing care to individuals and families, and directly take care of 95 percent of patients who come through the office door. We also feel that it's integral to total care for a physician to act as a health coordinator and patient advocate in the medical care system. You'll find that the residency experience at Sparrow/MSU is a time for uniting the idealism of medical school with the realism of private practice, not sacrificing one for the other. More specifically, the goals of our Residency Program include:


* Supporting personal and family life of our residents.
* Providing an academically excellent education in co-management of health care and promotion.
* Utilizing a competency-based approach to teach, evaluate, and document each residents training experience.
* Offering diverse experiences in a variety of practice situations.
* Promoting an adaptable, imaginative model for continuing medical education.
* Modeling the appropriate use of consultants.
* Fostering high quality, evidence-based, integrated patient care across the full spectrum of family medicine.
* Providing exposure to medical informatics.
* Offering an academic milieu that stimulates scholarly activity.

Objectives

Cognitive
Residents will receive training in the following areas:

* Behavioral science and the family-centered model of care
* Inpatient care of adults and children
* Outpatient care of families throughout the life cycle
* Family-centered maternity care and couplet care of mother and child
* High-risk maternity care
* Evidence based medicine and critical literature review
* Ethics and values in medicine
* Sports medicine
* Occupational health
* Emergency/Urgent care
* Community medicine
* Practice management leading to a successful transition into practice
* Nutrition throughout the life cycle
* Cost-effective care and managing care
* Life long self-learning skills

Procedural
Residents will have the opportunity to become fully competent in performing the following procedures:

Inpatient - arterial puncture, endotracheal intubation, adult and neonatal spinal tap, circumcision, internal jugular or sub-clavian puncture.

Obstetrical - vertex delivery, electronic fetal monitoring and interpretation, episiotomy repair through 4th degree, internal fetal heart rate and uterine pressure monitoring, fetal scalp pH, Prostin induction, Pitocin induction or augmentation, manual removal of placenta, vacuum assisted delivery, low forceps, management of shoulder dystocia.