Continuity Clinics

Our residents enjoy one-half day each week in their own Med/Peds continuity clinic.  These continuity clinics are the resident's chance to build and maintain an outpatient practice which serves as a model for our future practices.  We have several preceptors with very different clinic populations ranging from indigent care to a private Med/Peds practice.  This is a great way for our residents to see how different practitioners have developed and cultivated their own unique "style" of practicing medicine. Our continuity attendings also provide guidance with multiple resident concerns and questions such as establishing and running a practice to interviewing for jobs.  A half-day schedule ideally includes 3-4 patients for interns, 4-5 patients for 2nd and 3rd year residents and up to 7 patients for 4th year residents.  These visits are made up of well-child checks, yearly physicals for adults, well women exams, minor procedures, follow-up of chronic medical issues, and a plethora of ill visits.

During the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of residency training, residents may choose a second half-day of outpatient continuity clinic.  This clinic may be a general practice or subspecialty clinic.  It is possible to choose a preceptor in adolescent medicine, infectious disease, pulmonary, gastroenterology, genetics, development, or almost any other specialty you can imagine. 

Family Health Center

Dr. Andrew Quint is Med/Peds preceptor at the Family Health Center; he takes up to five residents for continuity clinic and hosts residents for their outpatient Med/Peds rotation.  The Family Health Center provides medical and mental health care for the entire family, with services to uninsured and underinsured patients as well as those covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
At the Family Health Center, charges are based on each individual's ability to pay and no one is refused care for financial reasons.
	The medical staff includes Med/Peds and Family Medicine physicians as well as certified family nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, RNs, LPNs, and clinical social workers.  Dr. Quint has made the clinic at the Family Health Center one of the most beloved experiences for many of the residents.  FHC is located 10 minutes northwest of UMHC.

Keene Medical Building

The Keene Medical Building houses the University Physicians Med/Peds resident continuity clinic.  This clinic is staffed two days per week by the academic Med/Peds faculty in the department of Medicine and Child Health.  Up to eight residents can train at this clinic.
Residents are encouraged to recruit patients into their practice just as they would in private practice.
	The Keene Building is located next to Columbia Regional Hospital, just south-east of the I-70 and Highway 63 interchange.

Broadway Physician’s Building

This clinic is home to one of our private practice clinic preceptors Dr. Christina Stixrud.  Dr. Stixrud's clinic is composed of both adult and pediatric patients and is a great example of a traditional Med/Peds clinic.  The clinic is located two miles from the University hospital, making it an easy commute.

University Physicians Medical Building

Green Meadows Clinic

Med/Peds residents rotate through the general pediatrics clinic at Green Meadows one or two blocks during their residency.  This is a wonderful opportunity to hone their clinic pediatric skills.  Visits include well-child checks, sick visits, and hospital follow-ups.  Green Meadows is staffed by a multitude of general pediatricians providing many different insights and approaches to pediatric care.  Noon conferences are attended via teleconference.  Residents work five days a week and alternate Saturday morning clinic.

Fairview Internal Medicine Clinic

Each Med/Peds resident spends 1-2 blocks during their residency at the Fairview Internal Medicine Clinic.  The block is designed to expose residents to traditional outpatient internal medicine.
Residents have the opportunity to work with multiple UMH internal medicine attendings.  One sees a wide range of patients and pathology and becomes proficient in both management of chronic medical issues and urgent care.  Fairview is located five minutes from UMHC at the corner of Fairview and Broadway.