Residency curriculum

The Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program follows a three-year curriculum designed to give residents a comprehensive clinical experience that will prepare them for future practice. The academic curriculum is designed around 13 blocks of four-week rotations with some longitudinal experiences.

Simulation lab

Floyd Family Medicine Residency provides a dedicated medical simulation space to help students learn about common and not-so-common diseases encountered in multiple environments.

First-year residency

Residents rotate through a variety of in-hospital clinical services, learning the fundamentals of inpatient management and gaining abundant procedural experience. Outpatient experience during the first year includes care of patients in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, on average one half-day each week. Residents see an average of three to six patients per half day.

Rotation assignments

Emergency medicine: 4 weeks

Adult hospital medicine: 14 weeks

Night float: 6 weeks

General surgery: 4 weeks

Obstetrics: 8 weeks

Orthopedics: 4 weeks

Pediatrics (inpatient): 8 weeks

Second year residency

Residents spend more time in ambulatory medicine, while supervising interns in their daily in-house activities. Residents spend on average two half-days per week in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, seeing an average of six to nine patients per half day.

Rotation assignments

Critical care: 4 weeks

Emergency medicine: 4 weeks

Adult hospital medicine: 6 weeks

Night float: 6 weeks

Family medicine clinic (outpatient): 6 weeks

Elective: 6 weeks

Neurology: 2 weeks

Obstetrics: 6 weeks

Pediatrics (inpatient): 6 weeks

Pediatrics (outpatient): 4 weeks

Practice management: 2 weeks

Third year residency

Residents refine their experiences from the preceding two years. Residents spend more time in ambulatory medicine, working a minimum of three half-days per week in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, seeing an average of nine to 12 patients per half day.

Rotation assignments

Advanced behavioral health: 2 weeks

Cardiology: 4 weeks

Electives: 22 weeks

Adult hospital medicine: 4-8 weeks

Family medicine clinic: 4-8 weeks

Gynecology: 4 weeks

Geriatrics: 4 weeks

Ophthalmology: 2 weeks

Pediatrics (outpatient): 4 weeks

Longitudinal experiences

• Behavioral medicine
• Care of nursing home patients (second and third year)
• OMT clinics
• POCUS (point of care ultrasound)
• Quality improvement/scholarly activity
• Community service
• Simulation lab