FM-NICEE Pilot and Immersion Rotations
Immersion Rotations
Family Medicine is one of 25 residency programs across the United States participating in the Family Medicine National Innovation in Continuity Clinic Experience (FM-NICEE) pilot, which grants our program a waiver from the ACGME requirement that states a family medicine resident must have a presence in their continuity clinic at least 40 weeks per academic year.
The program has taken advantage of this waiver by developing "hybrid" rotations, which allow our residents to spend two weeks dedicated to their specialty rotations in each 4-week block with one half day of continuity clinic. The remaining two weeks of the block is spent in continuity clinic.
Advantages of hybrid rotations
- Simpler schedules: less worry about balancing clinic with other experiences during a rotation
- Better experience with community faculty due to less interrupted time you will spend with them during a rotation
- Ability to still maintain continuity with your patients due to maintaining at least one half-day of continuity clinic during your specialty rotations