Residency Schedule
The rotations for the Family Medicine Residency at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital are designed to provide comprehensive training to the resident-physician in all the medical components necessary to fulfill the broad medical specialty of Family Medicine.
To comply with the guidelines listed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and to meet the requirements listed in the Special Requirements for Family Practice Residents, our residents follow an annual 13 block schedule with longitudinal experiences in outpatient pediatrics, geriatrics, ultrasound, nursing home care, musculoskeletal, minor procedures, colposcopy, and practice management.
| Post Graduate Year 1 | |
| Internal Medicine | 3 months |
| Obstetrics | 2 months |
| Community Medicine | 1 month |
| Emergency Medicine | 1 month |
| General Surgery | 1 month |
| Night Float | 1.75 month |
| Pediatrics - Inpatient | 1 month |
| Pediatrics - Outpatient | 1 month |
| Rural Medicine - Outpatient | 0.5 month |
| Geriatrics | 0.25 month |
| Family Medicine Center | PGY1 residents spend 2 mornings per week caring for their continuity patients. |
| Post Graduate Year 2 | |
| Internal Medicine | 3 months |
| Emergency Medicine | 1 month |
| Family Medicine Walk-In | 1 month |
| Internal Medicine - Outpatient | 1 month |
| Night Float | 1.25 month |
| Obstetrics/Gynecology | 1 month |
| Orthopedics/Sports Medicine | 1 month |
| Pediatrics - Inpatient | 1 month |
| Pediatrics - Outpatient | 1 month |
| Pulmonology/Critical Care | 1 month |
| Acute Care Clinic | 1 month |
| Geriatrics | 0.75 month |
| Family Medicine Center | PGY2 residents spend 1 full day and 1 morning per week caring for their continuity patients. |
| Post Graduate Year 3 | |
| Elective | 3 months |
| Internal Medicine | 2 months |
| Acute Care Clinic | 1.5 months |
| Geriatrics | 1 month |
| Internal Medicine - Outpatient | 1 month |
| Pediatrics - Inpatient ICU | 1 month |
| Selective | 3 months |
| Night Float | 0.5 month |
| Family Medicine Center | PGY3 residents spend 1 full day, 1 morning and 1 afternoon caring for their continuity patients. |