Family Medicine Inpatient Services
Welcome to South 6 - "home base" for the Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS).
We're proud to receive consistently excellent evaluations from residents and medical
students for the quality of teaching on our service. FMIS covers approximately 2200
yearly admissions from health center and hospitalist faculty and from community family
physicians in the Worcester area.
Residents rotate on FMIS in all three years of their residencies. During internship,
residents learn the basics of inpatient internal medicine - obtaining admitting histories
and physicals and writing orders and notes under the supervision of a second or third
year family medicine resident, faculty and community attendings. During their second
and third year rotations on FMIS, residents refine their clinical care skills and knowledge
base while learning to be supervisors in medicine. All residents work closely with
Dr. Jeremy Golding, the Inpatient Services Director and with the rotation teaching attending.
In addition, our multi-disciplinary teams include a faculty pharmacist and students from
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. They round with the teams teaching and
providing advice about medication-related problems. A behavioral medicine fellow also
rounds once weekly with the teams.
FMIS and its associated Family Medicine Hospitalist Service serves as the site for the
medical school's required 4th-year sub-internship ("Sub-I"). There are 4th-year medical
student "Sub-I's" on service most months. The "Sub-I" has been consistently among the
highest-rated of all UMMS 4th-year clerkships.
An exciting new development has been the creation of the Family Medicine Hospitalist
Service. Experienced family physician hospitalists admit 1200 patients yearly. FMIS
residents cover many of these patients, receiving intensive teaching from the full-time
hospitalists and sharing procedural opportunities. Our hospitalist faculty have won
resident "Teacher of the Year" awards the past two years.
Our curriculum includes daily morning report and a series of morning conferences
designed to present Society of Hospital Medicine subject competencies in hospital
medicine. Visiting lecturers from cardiology, neurology, pharmacy, and nutrition services
complete the daily conference series. The ability to access and use technology to efficiently
retrieve relevant information is key to providing high-quality, up-to-date medicine. All
residents receive PDA's fully loaded with custom and commercial medical software.
Residents also receive a DVD-ROM with the entire hospitalist lecture series and other
selected medicine resources. Our conference room and call room feature a number of
print and internet-based learning and reference resources and provide access to inpatient
EKG's, X-rays and CT scans. Most importantly, we have structured our busy FMIS
program activities to be fun as well as educational....ask any of our residents!. "Essential"
down-time comfort amenities include a recliner couch, large screen TV DVD/VCR player,
refrigerator and microwave.
It's hard work, no doubt, but interesting, fun, and collegial!