Training Sites

Training Sites

Ambulatory Training Sites

The two family practice centers are located within five miles of Henry Ford Hospital, they have much in common and share the department’s faculty and other educational resources.Two family practice centers will be used for resident continuity practice, Detroit East and Detroit Northwest, both Henry Ford Medical Group Health Centers. Detroit East site has many patients who work in industrial jobs or various professions. Both sites have laboratory and x-ray capability on site, as well as computer linkages for access to clinical and other information. Both also emphasize comprehensive family care, including ambulatory procedures, disease management and wellness programs, community linkages, and emphasis on the personal relationship between physicians and their patients.

Ambulatory experiences also include rotational ambulatory training in prenatal care at Community Health and Social Services (CHASS). This is a federally subsidized multi-ethnic inner-city community health center in Southwest Detroit, where family practice faculty work with social workers, mental health, nutrition, health education, and other professionals to provide general primary care and social support for a predominantly Hispanic local community. In contrast, ambultory experiences with Henry Ford subspecialists take place in suburban primary care centers in yet other cultural settings.

Detroit East Family Practice Center

* 4401 Conner Avenue in eastside Detroit
* 32 examination rooms including multiple procedural
capability
* Approximately 34,000 annual patient visits
* Onsite laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy

Disease management programs for:

* Diabetes
* Adult asthma
* Pediatric asthma
* Anticoagulation
* Fully electronic patient medical record
* Regular feedback reporting for patient satisfaction,
health maintenance indicator performance

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Inpatient Training Sites

Family practice residents experience rotations at three distinct Detroit hospitals:

Henry Ford Hospital, the 900-bed tertiary care center and main campus of the Henry Ford Health System.
Residents have experiences in internal medicine, pediatrics, obsterics, and subspecialty rotations at Henry Ford Hospital side-by-side with residents from multiple other disciplines.

A new admission in the emergency room

Family practice inpatient experiences, which include the care of patients from the family practice centers, take place at the nationally recognised Henry Ford Hospital.

The hospital boast state of the art specialty care and informatics. In addition to the family practice faculty, the medical staff includes many kinds of specialists who work with the residents as consultants and teachers. They share their knowledge, advice, and procedural opportunities.

The team organising the work of the day

Dr.Coats on work rounds

The family practice inpatient service is comprised of resident teams supervised by core family practice faculty. A senior supervising resident leads 1st and 2nd year junior residents in managing patients admitted from the family practice centers, other primary care practices, and inmates from the Wayne County Jail in a special contract.

Night call is organized as a two-week block rotation for senior residents, who are joined by junior residents from the team in an every fourth night rotation. The family practice service is busy and diverse and offers an outstanding clinical experience. Residents have adequate autonomy, but help when they need it. The faculty organize daily didactic teaching sessions to complement the clinical experiences of patient care. The family practice service is recognized for its quality of care, its efficiency, and its service orientation to patients.

Children’s Hospital of the Detroit Medical Center, a 228-bed hospital entirely devoted to the hospital care of children, where family practice residents experience rotations in inpatient pediatrics.

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