The crux of family medicine is patient-care. For that reason, our resident scholarship requirements are geared towards tangible outcomes in our daily patients. Each resident will participate in an on-going quality project that occurs in the outpatient clinic and led by a faculty member. Each resident will join a hospital quality Improvement team, also led by a faculty member, that aims to target issues in our hospital.  

The Rochester Academic Family Medicine Clinic areas of focus are: 

• Disease screening (pap smears, mammograms, colonoscopies) 

• Diabetes management 

• Coronary artery disease management 

• Well child visits 

• COPD and asthma management 

• Hypertension management 

• Medicare Wellness Visits 

The Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital areas of focus and teams are: 

• C. difficile infection control 

• Fall prevention 

• Congestive heart failure clinic engagement 

• Readmission rates 

• Catheter associated urinary tract infections