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 Motivational Interviewing*
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	Basic EBM for the internist* 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 & 2- Health Care and the Medically Underserved 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	Derm Workshop Multiple Chronic Disease Ophthalmology Oral Health Pain Management Physical Therapy for Primary Care Residents Sports Medicine/MSK*

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