Your Office, Your Patients

Forbes Family Health Center functions as a practicing physician's office. Here, you will develop your own panel of patients and have the experience of working within a group practice that strongly promotes continuity of care. You will be part of a team which includes registered nurses, medical secretaries, clinical nurse specialists, and a patient educator/nurse practitioner, all of whom support your learning in the Family Health Center.

Resident Mike Buebel, MD conducts the Denver Developmental Test with a Family Health Center patient, as the child's mother observes.

At the core of the Family Health Center is a large precepting and resident work area adjoining a conference room and a family consultation room. Also adjacent is the clinical area with 14 patient exam rooms. Some are equipped with special instruments and facilities for ENT exams and office procedures, such as colposcopy, cryosurgery, electrosurgery and minor surgery. The Center is also equipped for audiometry, tympanometry, spirometry, EKG, indirect laryngoscopy, vision testing and similar evaluations. There is an on-site office lab for such routine tests as urinalysis, urine cultures, hemoglobin, serum glucose, pregnancy tests and microscopic exams.

As a part of the program's interest in developing your interpersonal and communication skills, certain patient treatment and consultation rooms at the Center are equipped with video monitoring and recording. There is a full-time psychologist on the faculty who is available to precept and consult. Staff and family conference rooms, residents' lounge, library, precepting areas, medical records office, waiting room, patient education area and faculty offices complete the Family Health Center facility.

Both the resident work area and precepting areas are equipped with multiple computers having both Internet access and connections to the hospital's clinical information system.