The innovative centerpiece of the Primary Care Track is the ambulatory long block, which is a six-month intensive experience during the junior and senior years. Unique in its structure, residents spend six consecutive months in their junior year, and again in their senior year, working in outpatient primary care and subspecialty clinics. They become adept in general outpatient clinical practice and develop expertise in their specific areas of interest, from addiction treatment to hypertension management to the care of individuals with HIV. During long block, residents serve as an "innovation lab" within our practice, learning about quality improvement and spearheading meaningful improvements in care delivery that have lasting change within the faculty-resident practice where they see patients. All residents participate in the Social Justice Pathway, and they may pursue additional training and experiential learning in areas including geriatrics, women's health, medical education, research, health care leadership, and sexual and gender minority care. The primary care long block offers residents unparalleled flexibility to shape their training in accordance with their self-identified educational goals as well as clinical and academic interests.
Our primary care program, which is over 40 years old, was one of the first in the country. Over the past decade, we have graduated more than 120 primary care residents, many of whom have become leaders in clinical medicine, education, and research.