Program Strengths
Individualized Training
All residents are given a broad base of training, allowing them to practice in any setting. However, residents are also able to tailor their training given 6.5 months of electives and our unopposed program status. Our program continues to grow and change in response to the needs of our residents and our community.
Behavioral Health
Our residents incorporate the care of psychiatric illnesses into their daily work for patient of all ages. Dr. Julie Rickert is the Director of Behavioral Health and a nationally renowned behavioral health educator. She has a dedicated curriculum for first year residents which includes communication skills, dealing with challenges in patient care, and agenda setting. She leads regular sessions on behavioral health topics with all residents. She is integrated into our clinic and often precepts in clinic. We have additional support from outside adult and pediatric psychiatrists in the community.
Leadership
Residents participate in team meetings with clinic faculty and staff. Residents are an active part of learning and developing clinic policies. Residents progress in responsibility over the 3 years – increasing patient care and supervision of medical students and junior residents. They are required to sit on committees in the program, hospital, region, and beyond.
Addiction Medicine
Patients with addiction are often best cared for in a continued relationship with their provider. So, in our clinic, patients with substance use disorders are a part of the residents’ patient panels as we focus on whole person care. All residents receive training in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) with buprenorphine. All faculty and staff members have a passion for providing excellent care to patients suffering from addiction and minimizing the associated stigma.
Wellness
All residents have faculty and resident mentors. There is ongoing wellness education in the didactics and wellness activities (formal and informal). Our wellness committee has representation from each residency class along with faculty and clinical staff members. Recognizing that the work that we do has a tremendous impact on resident and staff wellbeing, we developed a practice management committee (which includes residents, faculty, and staff) to address work related contributors to wellness.
LGBTQ+ Care
Our residents have the opportunity to provide gender-affirming care within their own practice. Dr. Kevin Robertson works along side our residents while also working at the Inclusion Clinic at Froedtert Health. That clinic is dedicated to the care of the LGBTQ+ community incorporating primary care, surgery, endocrinology, and behavioral health. An elective rotation in the Inclusion clinic is available for our residents as well. Dr. Robertson also integrates care of LGBTQ+ patients into our didactics along with HIV care.
Procedural Training
Residents have the opportunity to learn a wide variety of in-office family medicine procedures, including colposcopies, neonatal circumcisions, IUD insertion and removal, Nexplanon insertion and removal, joint aspiration and injections, carpal tunnel injections, I&D of abscesses, lipoma and cyst removals, punch/shave/excisional skin biopsies, toenail removals, OMT, etc.
Sports Medicine
Dr. Yuka Kobayashi, team physician for multiple collegiate and professional sports teams, has driven continued improvement in this area and spearheaded our connection to Destiny High School.