| The model Family
Medicine Center provides an ideal
office setting offering many services that are often
found only in hospitals. The center maintains:
 Four
"medical mini-groups." Faculty and residents are
divided among four medical groups. Each group has a physician's
office, nursing office and four fully equipped examining rooms.
Patient panels are divided among the four groups so continuity of
patient care is maintained in a small medical group style by
residents and faculty in that group.
In addition to the latest PC based education aids as well as
Medline, via the Florida Health Information Network, all basic
office functions and access to the World Wide Web are readily
available in each group.
A fully staffed clinical pharmacological consulting service.
The pharmacy service is staffed by doctors of pharmacy and senior
pharmacy students. Services provided to the patients and
physicians include:
- Hospital consult program to aid the inpatient team with
problems in pharmacotherapy of complicated patients
- Computerized pharmacokinetic ambulatory consult service that
performs serum drug concentrations, compliance checks and
predicts dosing requirements
- Inpatient educational services including patient counseling,
instruction concerning unusual dosage forms, diabetes and
inhaler teaching programs
- Interaction with the University of Florida Drug Information
Service.
Practical clinical applications of prescribing are stressed to
our residents.
An up-to-date library in the Family Medicine Center. The
library subscribes to over 20 major medical journals, which are
archived up to 5 years and houses almost 500 medical books with
annual additions made to the library from suggestions by the
residents and faculty. An excellent collection of video and audio
tapes is available for lending and a media specialist is available
to assist with literature searches, article retrieval, computer
resources, patient information, and University of Florida Health
Science Center resources.
A fully equipped laboratory and x-ray facility.
A procedure room for minor surgery, flexible
sigmoidoscopy, flexible nasolaryngoscopy, colposcopy, LEEP surgery
and other procedures.
Diagnostic capability. ECG, stress testing, Holter
monitoring, pulmonary function testing, audiometry, tympanometry. |
