» Family Medicine Residency

For Prospective Residents

PGYI Internal Medicine
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

Goals

The goals of the internal medicine rotation are that the resident learns to recognize those internal medicine problems that can be managed by the family physician as well as to recognize those that require a referral to a consultant

Objectives

Patient Care and Medical Knowledge

Residents will:

  1. Be able to perform a complete history and physical examination
  2. Be able to generate a problem list for each patient
  3. Be able to formulate a diagnostic and therapeutic management plan
  4. Be able to appropriately order and interpret diagnostic studies
  5. Acquire the skills to perform appropriate procedures, including the knowledge of indications, potential adverse effects, and interpretation of resultant findings
  6. Understand the indications, efficacy and adverse effects of medical therapeutics
  7. Be able to present patient cases and problems to the faculty attending in a concise and organized fashion
  8. Be able to handle medical emergencies
  9. Be able to keep medical records in a concise and timely fashion
  10. Exhibit appropriate and professional relationships when dealing with patients and their families
  11. Exhibit appropriate maturity, intellectual honesty, and judgment commensurate with their level of training
  12. Exhibit ability to cooperate with medical colleagues and paramedical staff

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

  1. Be able to use the Internet to access current literature about diseases seen in the wards
  2. Be able to critically evaluate literature about current medical treatment of diseases seen in the wards
  3. Be able to work well in the context of the Ward Medical Team
  4. Be able to implement changes in patient care based on new information obtained from Attending Rounds, clinical experience, review of the literature and other sources

Interpersonal Communication Skills

  1. Communicate effectively with patients
    1. Able to communicate in a manner in which the patient and the family of a patient with a medical condition requiring hospitalization can understand
      1. Acute problem that hospitalized the patient
      2. Chronic medical conditions the patient may have
      3. Treatment plan
      4. Prognosis
    2. Able to listen to and address the concerns of patients and their families
  2. Communicate effectively with colleagues
    1. Able to work efficiently in the context of a Medical Team in a county facility
    2. Able to clearly communicate patient sign-out, both when giving and receiving sign-out
    3. Able to work efficiently with the support staff in the care of the hospitalized adult medical patient

Professionalism

  1. Demonstrate cultural competency
  2. Demonstrate the ability to act in the best interests of the patients
    1. Respect for confidentiality
    2. Respect for patient autonomy
  3. Be professional in all aspects of patient care
    1. Accepts personal responsibility for patients
    2. Accepts feedback in all aspects of care, including the six core competencies
    3. Timeliness
    4. Appropriate attire

Systems-Based Practice

  1. Demonstrate understanding of the care of the adult medical patient in the context of the current healthcare system in a county hospital
  2. Coordinate care with ancillary services to improve the healthcare of the patient
  3. Assist patients in dealing with their acute illness and any underlying chronic diseases they may have

Logistics

Contacts

Soma Wali, MD
Rotation Director
ICU/Medicine Wards
2B-182
swali@dhs.co.la.ca.us

Olive View Medical Center
14445 Olive View Drive
Sylmar, CA 91342
(818) 364-3251

Gus Chavez
Mark DeVany
Department of Medicine
(818) 364-3205

Additional Information

Location: Olive View Medical Center
14445 Olive View Drive
Sylmar, CA 91342

*** Report to the Department of Medicine's Administrative Office (room 2B-182) at 8:30AM on the first day of this rotation. If you need to make changes to your schedule or are unable to report to work, you must notify the Department Administrative Office

Continuity Clinic - 2 clinics / rotation

Call Schedule - Call is q4. The call schedule will be sent to you via email.

Educational Half Day - You are not excused from Medicine to attend EHD.