Resident Handbook - UC Davis Health System

efore the start of the rotation that will help guide the educational process. These are dividedinto cognitive knowledge and skills. Some of these skills are procedurally based. Specificprocedural competencies and expectations have been developed for this residency program; thesewill be refined with ongoing feedback from residents, faculty, staff, and graduate surveys.Residents are adult learners, ultimately responsible for their own educations utilizing thecompetency curriculum. The program is responsible for providing the proper type of learningexperiences and for maintaining its full accreditation from the Accreditation Council forGraduate Medical Education and complying with the American Board of Family Physician’srequirements.Graduate medical education is different from most of the educational experiences of the residentsprior to residency where the learning curve was steep, linked to specific courses, and thenfollowed by new material. The residency represents a transition from knowledgeable seniormedical students, to independent practitioners able to problem solve effectively and managepeople and processes. The only way to develop this professional maturity is through responsiblepatient care with supervision and feedback on skills, management decisions, and outcomes. Inthe residency, you will encounter undifferentiated problems, complex patients, practicemanagement issues, and the medical system. Repetition will be frequent and not every case willbe “new material” even though each patient has a unique set of personal, family, cultural, andgenetic issues. There really is no such thing as a “routine (i.e. uninteresting) case.This learning experience is also a service experience. We learn through providing care and wecontribute to our hospital, our clinics, and the people in the community we serve throughresponsible and compassionate care. Our residents provide extraordinary hospital care to theunderserved on medicine, pediatrics and obstetrics, as well as in our family health center. Therelationship that exists between patient care services and graduate medical education is amutually dependent partnership.Our goal is to graduate truly accomplished physicians that will enter practice comfortably, beable to handle the difficult cases as well as the straight forward, recognize limitations, obtainconsultations as appropriate, and function successfully as a community based family physician.Page 9 of 153C:\Documents and Settings\dhutak\Desktop\rshb13.doc