Didactics

We get a lot of didactics. All family medicine rotations have a behavioral sciences component where we read papers and discuss race, bias, chronic disease, behavior change, etc. It feels very fuzzy to me, and I am inclined to say that we got enough in our first two years, but I guess the administrators want reinforcement. Thursday afternoons involve resident conferences on topics like dialysis and inflammatory bowel disease. They aren't geared towards medical students so a bit of it is out of my understanding. Medicine and Family Medicine grand rounds involve expert lecturers on topics of general interest. Monday mornings have didactics by the clerkship site director on relevant topics; we learned about outpatient antibiotics the other day. Friday morning didactics are by the program director, a brilliant and eccentric MD/JD/MPH who has fascinating ideas about primary care medicine. He's heavily evidence-based and has radical ideas about medicine which I will eventually write about. So there's a lot of learning in different forms.