Chief Residents
Welcome!
The Primary Care Track offers an option to complete an Internal Medicine residency
with an emphasis on outpatient medicine. We are excited you have chosen to
consider our track as a training option. We imagine you wonder why our
training is unique and desirable to incoming residents?
Outpatient medicine is the cornerstone of not only general internal medicine
practice, but also all subspecialties. Whether, you choose to pursue a
clinic career, hospital medicine or a fellowship, we know our training program
will prepare you well. The time you spend in an outpatient setting can be
used to form relationships with future colleagues and expose you to surgical
problems often first managed by the outpatient clinician. We encourage you
to look further into our curriculum as we feel these three years have greatly
enhanced our future careers.
Within the primary care track, we have also developed out own ambulatory
curriculum. On the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month, our program meets
for Primary Care Conference. These hours are spent discussing pertinent
issues to clinic medicine, reviewing MKSAP questions and every 2nd and 3rd year
leads one meeting in order to review a topic of their choice. We also
review one to two journal articles each month to stay current on outpatient
topics.
Additionally, the primary care track is a small subset of the internal medicine
residency program consisting of approximately 18 residents. Our size
allows us to know one another personally and we feel a strong sense of
community. Each quarter, the primary care track gathers outside of work to
relax and have fun. These events include dinners, tailgates and time at
Keeneland.
Thank you for taking the time to look into the University of Kentucky. If
you have any questions about our program, please feel free to contact either of
us!
Sincerely,
Kelli and Grant
kelli.mathew@uky.edu
grant.harrell@uky.edu
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