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Continuity Practice
Residents attend Continuity Practice one full day each week
during most of the three-year program. During rotations to the critical care
units or as inpatient team leader, the assignment to Continuity Practice is
one half-day per week. Each continuity team is comprised of five to six residents
and a member of the ambulatory attending staff. Residents provide primary care
to panels of 100-150 patients each, adding to their panels as they rotate through
all inpatient and outpatient services. With the aid of the recently installed
continuity practice computers, residents are assured a wide diversity of patients
with respect to age, diagnosis and chronicity of illness.