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By Lt. Cmdr. Leah Soley, residency program director, Naval Hospital Pensacola, and Lt. Kevin Bernstein, chief resident, NHP.
PENSACOLA, Fla. - The American Council for Graduate Medical Education recently awarded Naval Hospital Pensacola’s Family Medicine Residency Program a four-year accreditation.
The outcome of the evaluation speaks volumes about the educational standards set by NHP and the hard work the residents and faculty perform daily. The accreditation represented months of demanding work by the faculty and staff, as well as the consistent performance of the residents in the program over the past 40 years.
NHP is one of the Navy’s five Family Medicine Residency teaching hospitals, and its Family Medicine Residency Program was started in 1972. The program provides three years of additional training after medical school to prepare residents to become board-certified in family medicine. An average of seven residents graduate per year and the program is considered one of the top residency programs in the Navy by many medical students, in part because of the range of clinical and patient-centered experience the program offers. Family medicine physicians provide care to the entire family and their training is focused on compassionate, patient-centered care to all ages and stages of life.
“[The residency] put in many hours of extra work and really pulled together as a program and clinic to earn this recognition,” said Cdr. Carolyn Rice, director of medical services, NHP. “I am glad that others recognize what a great job [they] do everyday training the next generation of physicians.”
Since its previous site assessment, the program has undergone a variety of rigorous changes. As the first Family Medicine Residency Program in the entire military to pilot patient-centered care, known as Medical Home Port, the residency program serves as a trailblazer for implementation and provides a blueprint for all other military residency programs as an example of successful Medical Home Port performance. The residency program’s Family Medicine Clinic was also the first Navy Family Medicine Residency to achieve the status of a Level III Medical Home Port, the highest level attainable for national recognition. The program also redeveloped its entire curriculum, which the ACGME has requested as a model and template to help develop curriculum at military and civilian residency programs across the country.
“These are challenging inspections that test the quality of family medicine residency programs and Naval Hospital Pensacola's program met the mark,” said Capt. Maureen O. Padden, commanding officer, NHP. “The excellence of the program would not be possible without the entire staff. Education is a shared responsibility.”
Throughout all three years, residents work under the supervision of a variety of talented family medicine physician faculty members and serve as primary care managers for patients within NHP’s Family Medicine Medical Home Port. In addition to clinic responsibilities, residents also provide care for nursing home patients, make home visits and deliver babies to patients they have followed during their entire pregnancy. Residents also rotate through a number of inpatient and outpatient specialty experiences to expand their knowledge and proficiency in a variety of areas including, but not limited to pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, orthopedics, dermatology and neurology.
NHP’s program continues to play a critical role in helping meet the need for physicians in the Navy around the world at our Military Treatment Facilities, on our ships, overseas and with Marines.
For more information on Naval Hospital Pensacola Family Medicine Residency Program, visit http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/pcola/rp.
| Date Taken: | 06.13.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 06.13.2013 13:06 |
| Story ID: | 108604 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA, FL, US |
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