Interns in the Primary Care track attend weekly dedicated curricular sessions during two months out of their first year. For our upper level residents, there are weekly Wednesday morning conferences on all outpatient or elective months and the 2nd Wednesdays are dedicated to the Primary Care track.
| Career |
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| Communication |
- Motivational Interviewing
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| Ethics & Professionalism |
- Negotiating Treatment at the End-of-Life
- Ethics and End-of-Life Colorado Law
- Various Palliative Care Topics (Medicare and Hospice Benefits) *
- DNR Discussions
- Managing Common Symptoms in a Progressive Illness *
- Giving Bad News
- Board of Medical Examiners
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Health Services Research/Evidenced
Based Medicine & Informatics |
- Introduction to Library Resources
- Introduction to UCDenver Resources & Searching for the Evidence
- Introduction to Primary Care Research Track
- PC Research Study Design
- PC Abstract preparation: Writing and abstract: case vignettes, educational innovations, and PC research
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Managed Care & Office Practice |
- Office Management I: Introduction to Billing
- Office Management II: Coordinating Your Practice
- Office Management III: Billing Education and Office
- Chronic Disease Management
- Reimbursement
- Email Medicine
- Telephone Medicine
- Legal Medicine (Medical Law)
- Profiling
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| Self-Care |
- 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
- Focus Group
- Wrap-up
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Teaching & Learning |
- Introduction to Evaluation & Feedback *
- Residents as Teachers I: Creating a Positive Learning Climate *
- Residents as Teachers II: Residents as Teachers & Leaders *
- Residents as Teachers III: Residents as Teachers & Role Models *
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| Underserved & Special Populations |
- 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
- Health Disparities
- Caring for Diverse Populations
- Domestic Violence *
- Adolescent Medicine Case Study
- Disability: The Basic I
- Assistive Devices for the Disabled
- Rural Health Opportunity and Loan Repayment
- Centers of Obesity Research & Education (CORE)
- Special Populations Career Panel session
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| Primary Care Workshops |
- Genetics in Primary Care: Taking and Interpreting a Family History
- Derm Workshop
- Splint Setting Session
- Mental Health I: Case-based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
- Mental Health II: Initial Diagnosis and Management of Serious Mental Illness in the Primary Care Setting
- Ophthalmology
- Oral Health
- Health Literacy
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* Topics presented through residency clinician educator pathway