The MedStar Health—Franklin Square Residency Program in Family Medicine
Family Medicine Residency program is demanding and stressful at times. It is hard work to become a well-trained, well-rounded family physician. What you will find at MedStar Franklin Square is a faculty dedicated to helping and supporting you through this challenging (and exceptionally rewarding) period of your life.
You will come in as a novice and leave with the skills and confidence to provide comprehensive patient centered care in any setting you choose.
One Resident per year participates in the combined Family Medicine-Preventive Medicine Residency in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health General Preventive Medicine Residency.
Why train here
There is a vast amount of information in Family Medicine, and students going into Family Medicine all have different interests within the specialty. Therefore we have created a curriculum that allows you to tailor your training to your interests. We make sure that the core competencies are covered but we have eight electives during the residency for you to further explore areas of Family Medicine which particularly interest you. To learn a little more about the program and how it’s evolving, we encourage you to read the following.
Read a letter from the Program Director, Department of Family Medicine
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Tour of Baltimore Social History
The CM objectives are met through a variety of activities including home visits, nursing home visits, health fairs, and collaborative experiences throughout the community. Community Medicine sites include:
- Franklin Woods Nursing Home
- Alliance Inc
- Healthcare for the Homeless
- Infants and Toddlers
- Central YMCA of Maryland
- AA/NA
- Aberdeen Proving Grounds
- Department of Aging
- Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
- Turnaround Inc.
- Baltimore County Public School
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Geriatrics
This curriculum includes a block rotation in year one plus longitudinal experiences including:
- Didactic lecture series the third Monday morning of each block.
- Residents will be assigned two nursing home patients whom they will see at a minimum one Thursday morning per semester, during their Family Health Center rotations.
- Residents will be assigned one home visit patient whom they will try to see during each Family Health Center rotation. This home visit patient may need to be seen on the resident's regular patient care schedule as well, depending on the patient's medical needs.
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Culture and Community Day
There sometimes seems to be an impossible amount of training to fit into a family medicine residency, despite our department's commitment to making it as flexible as possible. There is flexibility in many of the set rotations, but more than that, residents have six elective months completely open to any experience they would like to create.
Medical Student Rotations
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center is the hub of the longitudinal student training program for Georgetown University School of Medicine third year students. These students complete their core 3rd year rotations at MedStar Franklin Square, rotating through Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, along with subspecialty rotations.
We offer a 4-week family medicine elective for visiting 4th year medical students from US accredited medical and osteopathic schools. The student’s chosen career path must be family medicine. Our elective exposes students to a diverse patient population at MedStar Franklin Square Family Health Center. Students participate in a wide variety of clinical experiences: pediatrics, women’s health, prenatal care, adult medicine and geriatrics, sports medicine, dermatology, multi-disciplinary care coordination, pharmacy visits and behavioral health. Our clinic is equipped for common family medicine procedures such as colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, joint injections, skin biopsies, removal of skin lesions, IUD insertions and removals, Nexplanon insertion and removals, and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). In additional to the outpatient experience within our office, students will have the opportunity to experience home visits, population health, and scholarly activity.
The MedStar Franklin Square Family Health Center is a NCQA Level III PCMH (patient centered medical home), a model of healthcare delivery aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of care by using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term participative relationships.
All visiting students must apply for the elective rotation through the VSLO platform. Students are approved on a case-by-case basis. Please visit https://som.georgetown.edu/medicaleducation/visiting-students-program/ for more information about our visiting student rotations.
For more information about our family medicine elective rotations, please contact:
Kathy Whelan
Student Coordinator
Kathy.whelan@medstar.net
Contact us
For more information, contact:
Kimberley M Jones
Family Medicine Residency Program Coordinator