The resident spends two weeks working with our behavioral medicine staff, and with other community providers at multiple facilities in the community. The goals of this rotation are to gain basic skills in diagnosis and assessment of mental illness, to improve patient interviewing skills, and gain knowledge of resources available in Casper for mental health care.

Community Medicine consists of exposure to many of the ancillary services that are available in the hospital and community settings that aid in the delivery of comprehensive and quality care to patients. The resident will spend time with one of our Case Managers learning and touring different services in Casper. Some services included in the rotation: Public Health department services, nutrition and diabetic education, physical and occupational therapy, Child Development Center services, rehabilitation services, and clinical laboratory services.

The resident will spend two weeks at the outpatient clinic seeing their own patients.

While in the Emergency Department, the resident works directly with the ED physicians managing a variety of cases, including acute MIs, lacerations, asthma exacerbations, and a fortitude of trauma cases of various degrees (Wyoming Medical Center is a Level II trauma center with Life Flight service for most of the state).

The family practice inpatient (FPI) service is a team composed of two interns, a rover (PGY-2 or
PGY-3), and a supervising senior resident. On this rotation, the residents are responsible for all
hospital admissions of UWFP Clinic patients, VA patients, and Health Care for the Homeless
patients. The FPI residents are also on the Trauma and "Code Blue" teams. The intern
maintains one to two continuity clinics per week.

The night float rotation is designed to provide the intern resident with inpatient experience for a general family medicine service. The PGY2 float resident and PGY1 float resident function as a team to provide hospital coverage for all UWFPR patients and participate on emergency response teams for all patients in the hospital, including adult inpatients, pediatrics, and obstetrical patients.

During this rotation, the resident performs inpatient rounds with the OB-Gyn/Peds team. Most days are spent in Gyn specialty clinics, including clinics at Public Health and Casper College. When not in these clinics, the gyn resident helps cover L&D. The resident has two continuity clinics a week.

On the OB-Gyn/Peds service, the OB and GYN residents work with the senior resident to provide care for obstetrical patients on the L&D and postpartum units, newborns in the nursery, patients with gynecological problems, and all box call and community FM doctors' pediatric patients. The resident will have two half-days of their own clinic. The resident also has the opportunity to assist and perform C-sections, vacuum and forceps deliveries, D&Cs, and tubal ligations.

Although residents have many out-patient pediatric encounters in our continuity clinic this rotation allows for time with one of the local pediatricians in their outpatient clinic. The goal is to receive exposure and experience in primary care pediatrics.

The resident will spend one month on the inpatient service at Salt Lake City Children’s Hospital as part of the resident team. There is no clinic time during this rotation. Lodging is provided.

Time is spent with our hospital-based radiologists, along with some independent learning
modules.