Core Curriculum

Dr. Michelfelder will set your clinical schedule prior to your starting the Family Medicine rotation.

Your schedule may include daytime, early morning, evening, and Saturday hours at the Family Practice Center, 1211 W. Roosevelt Road, Maywood, IL. 60153. (708) 531-5200.  Some of your hours may include ethics consults with Dr. Michelfelder at Loyola University Medical Center or staffing the Community Health Center – a free clinic run by Loyola attendings, residents, and medical students on Western Avenue in Chicago.  During your rotation, the ACGME 80 hour work week will be honored and respected at all times.

During your scheduled time in the family medicine clinic, you will have assigned patients.  Therefore, if you need to be absent from the clinic at any time, your chief resident or the attending physician in OB/Gyne wishing to pull you from the family medicine clinic should contact one of the family medicine attendings directly.  Any personal absences will need to be approved by Dr. Michelfelder and the attending physician with whom you have been assigned to work.

In addition to patient care responsibilities in the family medicine clinic, you will have teaching responsibilities as well.  Often, there will be a third-year student, and occasionally first and second-year students, fourth-year students, and family medicine residents assigned to work in our clinic as well.  The Family Medicine Attending physician on call for the week will be responsible for coordinating the teaching activity for the week and may assign you to give a presentation or do some outside reading in preparation for a seminar on a common topic useful to the outpatient setting. 

On your first day of clinic, please report to Dr. Michelfelder or other FP attending at 1211 W. Roosevelt Road, 30 minutes prior to starting clinical hours to give you a clinic orientation.  You will also meet with our Head Nurse Debbie Barnish, R.N. who will give you a clinic orientation.

At the end of your second month in Family Medicine, you will take an on-line quiz of approximately 30-40 questions in USMLE III format.  The questions will come from the readings listed below.  The quiz results will be used to help you to strengthen any areas identified by the quiz.  It will also be used to help the Family Medicine Attendings to direct your education as well. 

THE QUIZ WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD YOUR FINAL EVALUATION IN YOUR FAMILY MEDICINE ROTATION.  IT IS ONLY TO BE USED AS AN INFORMATIONAL GUIDE. 

You will be expected to see patients, develop differential diagnoses and treatment plans as well as performing routine outpatient procedures under the direct supervision of attending physicians.  During the first 6 months of your residency, Medicare requires that all patients you see are also seen by an attending physician.

• OB Curriculum
• Self-Directed Web-Based Curriculum