Specialty Tracks

The goal of this track is to understand the unique needs of the adolescent population.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in addressing preventive needs, physical health, mental health, gender development, family planning, substance use, nutrition, and eating disorders in adolescent patients through 2 electives, partnership with a school-based adolescent health center, national conference attendance, research, a quality project, and personalized adolescent physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand unique needs and approach to care for patients and families with ethical dilemmas.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience to provide guidance on complex ethical decisions to patients and their families as well as to hospital systems through 2 electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, hospital committee participation, and personalized physician ethicist mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand and teach to different levels of learners in various clinical and didactic settings. Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in curriculum design, interactive presentations, precepting, feedback, and educational research through 2 electives, precepting of colleagues, national conference attendance with curricular presentation, and personalized expert faculty development physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand the care and unique needs of the geriatric population.  The resident will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience to provide preventive care and to diagnose and manage illness in geriatric patients and/or hospice & palliative care patients through 2 electives, longitudinal nursing home care, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized geriatric physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand care for patients in international settings.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in provision of care in resource-limited settings, management of infrastructure, disaster relief, and various types of infectious disease through 2 international electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, a quality project, and personalized attending physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand the management of hospitalized patients at an individual and systems level. Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience to diagnose and care for common inpatient conditions and code scenarios, to manage teams, and to improve quality through 2 electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, a quality project, hospital committee participation, and personalized inpatient director physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand an integrative approach to patient care. Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in holistic patient assessment, counseling patients on lifestyle and mindfulness, practical use of supplements, and referral for manual therapies, acupuncture, energy medicine, and other integrative modalities through 2 electives, personal wellness planning, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized integrative medicine physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand care of patients during preconceptual, prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum periods. Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in low-risk and high-risk prenatal care and vaginal deliveries including management of complications through required obstetrical rotations, 2 electives with required delivery and procedure numbers, teaching of colleagues within the residency and in national ALSO courses, national conference attendance, research, and personalized attending physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand assessment and management of obesity in adults and children.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in counseling patients on lifestyle modification, safely prescribing pharmacotherapies for weight loss, and managing medical and psychiatric comorbidities through 2 electives, longitudinal obesity clinics, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, a quality project, and personalized obesity medicine physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand indications and applications of OMT for musculoskeletal and visceral conditions.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in counseling patients about somatic dysfunction and applying OMT diagnostic and treatment techniques through 2 electives, longitudinal OMT clinics, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized osteopathic physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand needs and approach to improvement of individual practices and hospital systems. Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in practice management, quality assessment and improvement, hospital administration, and collaboration with leaders through 2 electives, national conference attendance, quality certification, teaching of colleagues, research, a quality project, hospital committee participation, and personalized physician administrator mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand diagnosis and care of common physical and mental conditions affecting refugees.  Residents will acquire knowledge, skills, and experience in completing refugee intakes and providing care related to acute conditions, chronic conditions, immunizations, and resettlement through 1 local elective in a civil surgeon role, 1 international elective in a panel physician role, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, a quality project, and personalized civil surgeon physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand basic research methods in primary care. Residents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to develop a research question, perform literature searches, propose and implement a research plan, and disseminate findings through 2 electives, highly rigorous longitudinal research work at The Research Institute, national conference attendance with presentation, research publication, teaching of colleagues, and personalized physician researcher mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand care for athletes of all ages. Residents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience in diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal conditions, providing sideline care, and utilizing ultrasound and procedural skills through required ortho and sports rotations, 1 to 2 electives, longitudinal workshops and training room experience, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized sports medicine physician mentorship.

The goal of this experience is to understand the unique needs and approach to care for vulnerable patient populations and larger communities in low-resource urban settings.  Residents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience in addressing social determinants of health and caring for patients experiencing substance abuse, domestic violence, TB, HIV/AIDs, homelessness, and other acute and chronic health conditions through 2 electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, a quality project, and personalized community medicine and public health physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand care for patients that present to urgent care and ED fast track settings.  Residents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience in diagnosing and treating acute conditions in adults and children, triaging patients, and performing acute procedures through 2 electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized urgent care physician mentorship.

The goal of this track is to understand the unique needs and approach to care for female patients from menarche through menopause.  Residents will gain knowledge, skills, and experience in diagnosing and treating various conditions related to women’s health, counseling patients and performing procedures for family planning, performing colposcopy, and managing menopause through a required women’s health rotation, 1 to 2 electives, national conference attendance, teaching of colleagues, research, and personalized OB-gyn physician mentorship.