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 seven 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): 4 weeks
- Pediatrics (outpatient): 4 weeks
Second-year residency
Residents spend more time in ambulatory medicine, while supervising interns in their daily in-house activities. On average, residents spend two half-days per week in the Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic, seeing an average of seven to 10 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 10 to 11 patients per half day.
Rotation assignments
- Advanced behavioral health: 2 weeks
- Cardiology: 4 weeks
- Electives: 18-22 weeks
- Adult hospital medicine: 4-8 weeks
- Family medicine clinic: 4-8 weeks
- Gynecology: 4 weeks
- Geriatrics: 4 weeks
- Ophthalmology: 2 weeks
- Pediatrics (inpatient): 2 weeks
- Pediatrics (outpatient): 2 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