Primary Care Residency Program

The University of Kentucky offers a unique program to provide residency training in Primary Care Internal Medicine. As the demand for primary care general internists increases, there is increased recognition of the need for high quality generalist training. The Primary Care Residency Program at the University of Kentucky strives to provide a well-developed, structured curriculum to prepare our primary care residents for practicing the specialty of generalist internal medicine in both urban and rural settings in a managed care environment.

Our Primary Care program offers training experiences uniquely required to practice general internal medicine, including:

• instructional and clinical learning activities that are fully integrated with our traditional medicine training curriculum.
• excellent preparation for practicing general internal medicine in a managed care environment in urban and small community settings.
• community-based rotations to prepare you for expanding opportunities for internists in private practice and rural communities.
• nearly 50% of total training time during 2nd and 3rd years are in ambulatory settings.
• board pass-rate of 100% for the past three years (>90% since 1995).

Our graduates are well-trained in common ambulatory problems they will encounter in their future practice as general internists in addition to the traditional core training in internal medicine provided by the hospital-based rotations. In addition to resident noon conferences with traditional core medicine topics, the primary care residents participate in a two-year curriculum reviewing ambulatory primary care topics, including:

• a weekly pre-clinic conference, covering topics that complement their noon conference, morning report and other traditional learning activities.
• three months scheduled in Ambulatory Care, rotating in a variety of traditional internal medicine specialty as well as non-internal medicine clinics.
• a small group workshop series during the Ambulatory Care rotation, reviewing medical economics and practice management, women's health topics and procedures, dermatology procedures and clinical skills improvement.
• one month each year in a community-based rotation, practicing general internal medicine side by side with private practice physicians.

Women's Health

Within the primary care tract is a more specific curriculum regarding Women's Health. This gives the resident more gender specific experience from faculty whose passion is Women’s Health. After your initial intern year in primary care, you may choose to have one of your two continuity clinics in the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health in each of the next two years. Your ambulatory care rotation can be customized to allow you to experience gynecologic office procedures under the guidance of experienced physicians. Pre-clinic conferences are also specifically designed with the care of women in mind. Additionally, there is an elective in Women’s Health for the third year to further your knowledge.

For more questions concerning the Primary Care Residency Program, please contact:
Jacqueline S. Gibson, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Primary Care Residency Program Director
Department of Internal Medicine
jsgibs2@uky.edu

Lindsey Sutton
Program Coordinator
K529 Kentucky Clinic
Lexington, KY 40536-0284
859-323-9918
lsutt2@email.uky.edu