Family Medicine Innovation in Continuity Clinical Experience (FM-NICCE) Pilot

[House911MD]

Does anyone know how to find a list of which programs have started this new curriculum?

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[hallowmann]

There are 25 programs involved. I'm familiar with two of them. I'll check and see if I have a list of all of them in an email somewhere.

Edit: here you go

Here's a written out list to make it easier

North:

• Central Maine Medical Center FMRP
• Hoboken University Medical Center/NY Medical College
• Heritage Valley Health System FMRP

South:

• Eastern Virginia Medica School Ghent FMRP
• Eastern Virginia Medica School Portsmouth FMRP
• Savannah FMRP
• Naval Hospital Jacksonville
• University of Florida-Gainesville FMRP
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga
• Oklahoma University School of Community Medicine-Tulsa
• University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Doctors Hospital at Renaissance FMRP

Midwest:

• The Ohio State University-Columbus
• The Christ Hospital-University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• University of Michigan FMRP
• Munson FMRP
• Ascension Providence-Park Hospital/MSU-CHM
• University of Chicago North Short FMR
• Hennepin County Medical Center FMRP
• University of Iowa FMRP

West:

• University of Arizona-Tucson FMRP
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-South Campus FMRP
• Ventura County Medical Center
• O'Conner Hospital FMRP
• Natividad FMRP
• Oregan Health and Science University-Cascades East FMRP

 

[KeikoTanaka]

What is this?

 

[hallowmann]

What is this?

FM-NICCE is a task force that developed a pilot program that is designed to change the family medicine curriculum in order to provide better continuity of care and emphasis on outpatient medicine despite the often rigorous inpatient component of many family medicine programs. They are piloting some different programs and experimenting with schedules, with the plan to publish results periodically. I believe they have already reported on the first year's progress.

To give you a little more detail on what this means practically, programs are experimenting with changes in resident schedules. For example, instead of a standard 4 wk block schedule, some are doing a 2x2 schedule where the ultimate goal is to have a dedicated 2 wk inpatient block without interruption in the service for outpatient clinic, combined with a 2 wk block that does incorporate outpatient clinic typically on a less hour-intensive rotation. In doing so, residents are in clinic more predictably at shorter intervals (at least every 2-3 weeks), so they can improve their own continuity with their patients and at the same time there are less interruptions in the inpatient service/rotations.

Its funny, I thought I only knew 2 of the programs, but after reviewing the list, I actually interviewed at 5 of them. That seems like a weird coincidence given that was all before the pilot program.

 

[House911MD]

There are 25 programs involved. I'm familiar with two of them. I'll check and see if I have a list of all of them in an email somewhere.

Edit: here you go

Here's a written out list to make it easier

North:

• Central Maine Medical Center FMRP
• Hoboken University Medical Center/NY Medical College
• Heritage Valley Health System FMRP

South:

• Eastern Virginia Medica School Ghent FMRP
• Eastern Virginia Medica School Portsmouth FMRP
• Savannah FMRP
• Naval Hospital Jacksonville
• University of Florida-Gainesville FMRP
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga
• Oklahoma University School of Community Medicine-Tulsa
• University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Doctors Hospital at Renaissance FMRP

Midwest:

• The Ohio State University-Columbus
• The Christ Hospital-University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
• University of Michigan FMRP
• Munson FMRP
• Ascension Providence-Park Hospital/MSU-CHM
• University of Chicago North Short FMR
• Hennepin County Medical Center FMRP
• University of Iowa FMRP

West:

• University of Arizona-Tucson FMRP
• University of Arizona College of Medicine-South Campus FMRP
• Ventura County Medical Center
• O'Conner Hospital FMRP
• Natividad FMRP
• Oregan Health and Science University-Cascades East FMRP

Thanks so much. I applied to a few of these not knowing they were participating. I think I might just attempt to submit a few more applications even though it's so late in the season