Resident Continuity Clinic

To provide experience in continuity of care, residents will follow their own patients in resident continuity clinic throughout their three years of training.  This takes place on Thursday afternoons.  All residents are in clinic Thursday afternoons except for the Saint Louis University Hospital consult resident, who will be excused from continuity clinic during their consult months**.**  The residents will have their own schedules which they will manage with resident clinic faculty guidance.  The number of patients scheduled will increase as the resident progresses in training. First years start with 3 patients in July and increase to 5 patients in August through June. Second years are assigned 7 patients. Third years have 8 patients on their schedule. It is the resident’s responsibility to prepare for his/her patients and provide all follow up care, especially with regards to laboratory studies and skin biopsies. Residents should keep a record of all biopsies they perform in resident clinic.  It will be the resident’s responsibility to notify the patient of the results and schedule further treatment if required.

The resident clinic is an opportunity to begin understanding the management issues related to a clinical practice.  The resident clinic experience will be used to discuss such issues as scheduling, patient flow, patient no-shows, insurance precertification and procedure authorization, the iPledge system, patient follow-up, and the coordination of patient care with other providers and hospital systems.  The resident clinic is also a clinical activity where the residents will begin to develop their teaching skills of medical students and visiting residents.

The faculty will supervise the resident clinic.  A faculty member is always assigned to and solely available for supervising the residents’ care of their patients.  It is the residents’ responsibility to work with the supervising faculty members to ensure timely closure of all resident clinic encounters.