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How do we measure up?

  • First time Board Pass rate of 98% since 1995.
  • In-training assessment exam scores are
    consistently in the top 40% nationally.

Teaching opportunities

  • Satellite campus for Indiana University School
    of Medicine first and second year medical students.
  • Site for third year Family Medicine
    clerkship for IUSOM.
  • Multiple elective rotations available
    for 4th year students from IUSOM
    or any US medical school .
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Research

  • Annual Medical Education Scholarly Activity

and Research Symposium

  • Each Family Medicine Resident must

participate in an oral or poster case

presentation once during their

3 year residency (see awards below)

  • Indiana Academy of Family Physicians

Annual Research Day

  • Our residents have the

opportunity to participate

in the yearly research day

and are eligible for cash prizes.

  • Longitudinal Performance/Practice

Improvement Project

  • Our residents participate in a

class project that spans their

entire residency and involves

gathering data on our clinic

performance on chosen standards

of care or clinic efficiency parameters. 

The residents evaluate this data in an

effort to formulate a plan for improvement

of our clinic practices and overall efficiency.  This project prepares residents for meeting their board certification requirements when in private practice.

Awards & Accomplishments

2010

Curtis O'Loughlin - AAFP/Bristol Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education (one of only 12 recipients in the nation)

Jean Roberts - 1st Place Oral Case Report - "Chronic Migraine Headache and Associated Speech Delay in a 30-month-old Child"

Bradley Haupricht - 2nd Place Oral Case Report - "When Exercise Goes too Far:  A Case of Exertional Rhabdomyolysis" and 3rd Place Oral Case Report at the IAFP State Research Day with the same report

Brad Goates - 1st Place Poster Case Presentation - "Three Year Old Female with pneumococcal meningitis and cardiac murmur"

Jennifer Biggerstaff - 3rd Place Poster Case Presentation - "Phimosis as a presenting symptom of Type 1 DM in an adolescent"

Katie Mullins - William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

2009

Brad Morin - 2nd Place Poster Case Presentation - "Topiramate-induced Angle-closure Glaucoma and Myopia"

Sheirlie Lamantia - William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

2008

Nicholas Nussbaum - 1st Place Oral Case Presentation - "Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma (Mycosis Fungoides)"

Jule Gunther - 2nd Place Oral Case Presentation - "A Twenty-One Year Old with Hemoptysis"

Patricia Benoist - 3rd Place Oral Case Presentation - "Neonatal Herpes Simplex Infection" and the William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

2007

Sharon Ruch - 2nd Place Original Research - "Pediatric Obesity: A Local Epidemic?"

Kristin Wood - William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

Roy Miner, Jr., MD MPH—Elected for Alternate Resident Delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates at the 2007 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.

2006

Jennifer Wilson - 1st Place Case Presentation and William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

Erin Vinson - 2nd Place Case Presentation - "West Nile Virus Meningitis:  It Happened Here"

Kristin Wood - 3rd Place Case Presentation

Amanda Dornfeld - William Stinson Scholarship Recipient

2005

Justin Whitt—2005 AAFP/Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education

2004

Drew Cougill—Director of Indiana Academy of Family Physicians resident section 2004-2005, delegate to 2003 national AAFP conference

Lori Hurst—ISMA delegate, delegate to AMA RFS, Indiana resident delegate to AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents 2004

Spencer Richards—American Medical Society of Sports Medicine National Resident Scholarship

Amanda Dornfeld -delegate to IAFP conference 2004, delegate to AMA RFS 2004

Ryan Torrie—delegate IAFP conference 2004

2003

Bill Cooke—2003 National Patient Education scholar; 2nd place for research project at Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Resident Research Day; Resident delegate to state IAFP 2002, 2003

Amanda Morris—Pisacano Scholar ( through the American Board of Family Medicine); 2003 Bristol Myers Squibb Award recipient for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education;  Participated in an elective at the Robert Graham Center in Washington, D.C.  She conducted research looking at the roled of international medical graduates in family medicine in the United States.

Brian Morris—2nd place for case presentation at Indiana Academy of Family Physicians Resident Research Day

 

 
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