Johnson City Family Medicine Residency Program

Overview

The Johnson City Family Medicine Residency Program focuses on preparing individuals for a rewarding future practice. The program offers excellent opportunities to master an abundance of procedures, and has both a level 1 trauma center and a children's hospital, which allows excellent experiences in emergency medicine, adult inpatients care and pediatrics.

Program faculty have special interests such as prevention, evidence-based medicine, substance abuse, chronic disease management, practice management, physician wellness and patient-centered communications.

The Johnson City Family Medicine Residency Program is a community-based residency located on the campus of East Tennessee State University. Our curriculum emphasizes prevention and patient education, medical diagnosis, office-based procedures, patient-centered communications and biopsychosocial approaches, therapeutic management, practice management, lifestyle modification and physician wellness. In addition to the rotations and curriculum, we offer you the opportunity to tailor your education to your interests.

Goals & Objectives

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Curriculum

The curriculum for the Johnson City Family Medicine Residency Program blends clinic and didactic components to support resident learning. During the first year, residents spend the majority of time on inpatient rotations. In the second and third years, increasing emphasis is placed on office practice and additional time is allotted to following an established patient panel in the Family Medicine Center. Activities are designed to focus on clinical prevention, community education, and screenings through participation in local health fairs. The key focus of the program is to understand the importance of prevention and health promotion in the lives of our patients and the community, and to teach residents to provide exceptional patient care.

• PGY-1

   

  Introduction/Orientation	1 block (4 weeks)
  Cardiology	1 block
  Office	1 1/2 blocks
  Pediatric Inpatient	1 block
  Newborn Nursery	1 block (1 calendar month)
  Emergency Medicine	1 block
  Night Float	1 block (split into 2 weeks sessions)
  Ambulatory Pediatrics	1 block
  Family Medicine Hospital Services	2 blocks
  Surgery	1 1/2 blocks
  Obstetrics	1 1/2 blocks
  Dermatology	Longitudinal with office rotation
  Family Medicine Continuity	1 to 3 half-days per week

   

• PGY-2

   

  Pediatric Inpatient	1 block (1 calendar month)
  Family Medicine Hospital Service	2 blocks
  Night Float	1 block (split into 2 weeks sessions)
  Community Medicine	1/2 block
  Practice Management	1 block (all in January)
  Obstetrics	1/2 block
  Office Chief	2 blocks
  Sports Medicine	1 block
  Geriatrics	1/2 block
  ICU	1/2 block
  Elective Time	2 1/2 - 3 blocks
  Pharmacology	Longitudinal with office chief rotation
  Family Medicine Continuity	2 to 4 half-days per week

• PGY-3

   

  Family Medicine Hospital Service	2 blocks
  Office Chief	2 blocks
  Night Float	1 block (split into 2 weeks sessions)
  Obstetrics	1/2 block
  Pediatric Emergency Department	1 block
  Ambulatory Pediatrics	1 block
  Pediatric Orthopedics	1/2 block
  ICU	1/2 block
  Elective Time	4 1/2 blocks
  FMS/OC/NF Coverage	1/2 blocks

Clinic

ETSU Health Family Medicine Johnson City is the clinical practice of the Johnson City Family Medicine Residency program with over 14,000 patient visits last year. The patient population is broad-based and includes diverse socioeconomic groups. The 12,000 square foot facility opened in 1988 and has minor surgery, colposcopy, stress testing and lab facilities in addition to 18 patient exam rooms.

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Hospital

Johnson City Medical Center is part of Ballad Health - an integrated healthcare system serving 29 counties of Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Northwest North Carolina and Southeast Kentucky. It is accredited by The Joint Commission and the American College of Surgeons-American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

With 445 beds available, it offers full acute care facilities, including:

• Level 1 trauma center (one of six in the state)
• Children's ED
• Regional tertiary referral center
• Cancer center
• Wings Air Rescue
• Orthopedic and neuro-surgical services
• Cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery
• Family child birth center
• Comprehensive rehabilitation unit
• Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

Niswonger Children's Hospital is a 69-bed facility and St. Jude Affiliate Clinic located within the Johnson City Medical Center campus. It is the only children's hospital in the region.