Primary Care Tuesday/Wednesday Education Session Curriculum
Interns in the Primary Care track attend weekly dedicated curricular sessions during two months out of their first year (7-8 Tuesday mornings in June/July and March/April). For our upper level residents, there are weekly Wednesday morning conferences on outpatient or elective months and 6 Wednesday mornings each year (12 Wednesdays in total) are dedicated to the Primary Care track.
| Curriculum | Session |
| Behavioral Health & Communication | Challenging Patient Conversations​ Mental Health I: Case-based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety and Depression Mental Health II: Behavioral and medical Treatment of Insomnia Mental Health III: Initial Diagnosis and Management of Serious Mental Illness in the Primary Care Setting |
| Career | Welcome to Primary Care Career Panel, Special Populations Career Panel Evaluating an Employment Contract Updating your CV |
| Ethics & Professionalism | Negotiating Treatment at the End-of-Life End-of-Life Ethics and Colorado Law DNR Discussions Giving Bad News Palliative Care & Hospice Board of Medical Examiners |
| Health Services Research/Evidence Based Medicine & Information | Introduction to Library Resources PC Research I: Introduction to Primary Care Research Track PC Research II & III: Study Design and Writing an Abstract Screening 101 |
| Managed Care & Office Practice | Email Medicine/Telephone Medicine Office Management I: Introduction to Billing Office Management II: Coordinating Your Practice Office Management III: Billing Education and Office Physician Profiling Reimbursement Who Pays Medicare/Medicaid |
| Self-Care | Focus Group Self Care I: Understanding burnout, compassion fatigue and resiliency Self Care II: Creating effective environments for self- and team-care Self Care III: Reconnecting with values Wrap-up |
| Underserved & Special Populations | Adolescent Medicine Case Study ​Advocacy I:
1- Caring for Patients in a Broken System Advocacy II: Beyond the Bedside Advocacy III: Medicine & Megaphones- Using the Media to Promote Health Centers of Obesity Research & Education (CORE) Elderly Driver Eating Disorders Health Literacy Rural Health Opportunity and Loan Repayment |
| Primary Care Workshops | Chronic Migraine & Botox Injection Derm Workshop Multiple Chronic Disease Nexplanon Training Ophthalmology Oral Health Pain Management Physical Therapy for Primary Care Residents Suboxone Training |
Updating Your CV session with Dr. Chacko
Christine Haynes, MD
Primary Care Curriculum Director
Christine.Haynes@dhha.org
Residency Application
To find the Residency Application information, please go to Internal Medicine Residency Training Program.