Residents with IU School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency at Indiana University Health Arnett have their rotations in three areas in Indiana. Almost all rotation time is spent at IU Health Arnett Hospital and the surrounding IU Health clinics in the Greater Lafayette area. The residency and residency clinic are in the Medical Office Building attached to IU Health Arnett hospital, allowing for seamless learning between in-patient care, obstetrics care, and ambulatory care. Outside of the Greater Lafayette area residents spend part of their ER rotation time in Monticello and Frankfort at critical access facilities just outside of Lafayette. Residents also travel to Indianapolis to spend a month of inpatient pediatrics at Riley Hospital for Children, allowing for the contrasting experiences of working in a community hospital pediatric unit at IU Health Arnett as well as a large tertiary-care pediatric unit at Riley Hospital. While rotating at Riley Hospital for Children, residents integrate completely into the pediatric team and are not required to travel back to Arnett for clinic or didactics and are even provided with housing for the duration of the rotation.
Facilities
Family Medicine Clinic
The Family Medicine Clinic is a state-of-the-art ambulatory care clinic with 20 patient rooms that was opened in 2017. The Family Medicine Clinic emphasizes team-based care, and residents work alongside clinical preceptors, support staff, nurse practitioners, dieticians, pharmacy, and behavioral health, all with one goal — the patient. Residents benefit from a clinic that offers both in-person and virtual clinic visits, increasing access and satisfaction to our patients. Residents also can practice osteopathic manipulative treatment with osteopathic-trained faculty.
Ambulatory Procedures
Another benefit of the program is its robust procedure clinic. Residents rotate one-on-one with a clinical preceptor in a procedure clinic that accepts referrals from clinics across the IU Health West Central Region.
Procedures include:
- Skin biopsies (punch, shave, and excisional), sebaceous cyst and lipoma removals, abscess incision and drainage
- Intrauterine and implantable contraception insertion and removal, colposcopy, endometrial biopsies
- Joint and bursal injections including those with US guidance
- Ingrown toenail removal