Third Year

The program's third year gives you advanced clinical practice in the Family Health Center, where you will spend four half-days each week. In addition to the required medical and surgical subspecialty rotations, you will choose or design electives to expand your knowledge in previously-introduced areas or integrate new ones of special interest.

A unique feature of the third year is your choice of a longitudinal elective such as women's health, industrial medicine, family counseling, ambulatory surgery, teaching, patient education or research. One half-day each week is spent in longitudinal electives.

The Third Year Curriculum	"The pediatricians and obstetricians on staff here  are great. I feel very secure about the care I've learned to give my patients and families" - Larissa Meyer, MD, resident
LONGITUDINAL EXPERIENCE
LONGITUDINAL ELECTIVES 1 half-day per week
FAMILY HEALTH CENTER 4 half-days per week
ROTATIONS Months Activity 1 Behavioral Pediatrics*/ Urology 1 Neurology 1 Dermatology 1 Radiology/Night Float 1 Orthopedics 1 ICU 1 Geriatrics** 1 Family Practice Inpatient Service 1 Family Practice Office Rotation 3 Electives (see Second Year)

*On subspecialty pediatrics you rotate among the specialty clinics of West Penn - Forbes Regional Campus Department of Pediatrics, working directly with a pediatric neurologist, gastroenterologist, surgeon, cardiologist and endocrinologist. In addition, consultation with a behavioral pediatrician sharpens your ability to assess and treat or competently refer a wide range of developmental and child behavioral problems. During this rotation, there is an opportunity to work with a local elementary school as a health educator and with a school doctor.

**Geriatrics is taught as a one month block rotation along with monthly multidisciplinary teaching rounds at a local nursing home.  Residents follow a panel of nursing home patients and home-visit patients throughout this year.  Experience at the Forbes hospice is also part of the rotation.