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Leslie E. Tingle, M.D., program director, shares the residency program’s goals and objectives. Read More


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For more information about the program, please contact:

Dana Warren
Residency Coordinator
Baylor Family Medicine Residency at Garland
601 Clara Barton Blvd., Suite 340
Garland, TX 75042
Tel: (972) 272-5935

Click here for a map and directions to the facility.


Baylor Family Medicine Residency at Garland
 
Conferences
 

Residents participate in a variety of didactic activities throughout their residency. Didactics are presented by the Family Medicine faculty and community preceptors. Residents also deliver didactics to develop their investigatory and presentation skills.

Thursday Afternoon Conference
Thursday Afternoon Conference, held weekly, consists of presentations given on the core didactic curriculum which repeats every 18 months. Special focus is given to coding, practice management, behavioral medicine and research and scholarly activity discussions. Residents play an integral role in this conference, with several opportunities to present during their residency. Residents are responsible for presenting Journal Club and Case Conferences, held monthly. Each resident also prepares and presents one behavioral medicine didactic during the intern year. Balint groups and Quality Improvement Hour are also held during this conference. Lunch is provided to attendees.

 
  •  Balint: Residents attend Balint groups weekly with the members of their class during the first 6 months of the year and bimonthly thereafter. Balint groups are designed to provide a supportive environment for sharing and processing feelings related to patient encounters and to facilitate the understanding of the bidirectional relationship between physicians and patients.
  •  Quality Improvement Hour: Quality Improvement Hour is held the first Thursday of each month from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. Residents are organized into teams with two residents from each year level per team. The teams are coached in practiced based learning techniques and methods of rapid cycle improvement. Each team completes two process improvement projects per year and presents the results to the larger audience of the residency.
  •  Research Group: Research Group is held the second Thursday of each month from 5:00 to 6:00. Residents planning or actively engaged in a research project meet during this hour to discuss their research and address questions related to the research process. This meeting is facilitated by faculty.
 
Thursday Conference Schedule
  1st Thursday 2nd Thursday 3rd Thursday 4th Thursday
12:30-1:30 pm Core lecture Core lecture Core lecture Core lecture
1:30-2:00 pm Announcements Announcements Announcements Announcements
2:00-3:00 pm Balint Case of the
Week or AFP Review (alternating schedule)		 Balint Case of the
Week or AFP Review (alternating schedule)
3:00-4:00 pm Coding Behavioral Medicine Journal Club or Scholarly activity presentation (alternating schedule) Core lecture
4:00-5:00 pm Core lecture Core lecture Journal Club or Scholarly activity presentation (alternating schedule) Core lecture
5:00-6:00 pm Quality Improvement Projects Research Group Peer Review or Board Review (alternating schedule)  
 
Board Review
In addition to Thursday Afternoon Conference Board Review, residents may also attend an optional faculty-facilitated Board Review held each Monday at 12:30 - 1:30.

Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds are held every Tuesday morning at 7:00 am at Baylor Medical Center at Garland. Breakfast is provided to attendees.
 
Grand Rounds Schedule
1st Tuesday 2nd Tuesday 3rd Tuesday 4th Tuesday 5th Thursday
(when applicable)
Hematology/
Oncology		 Cardiology or
Family Medicine (alternating schedule)		 Clinical
Pathologic Conference		 Radiology or Rheumatology (alternating schedule) Other Specialist
 
Breast Conference
Breast Conference is held the second Thursday of each month at 5:00 pm. Cases are presented by surgeons, with additional information on each case provided by Pathology, Radiology, and Oncology. Family Medicine physicians also participate, often discussing follow-up with patients post-treatment. This conference is interactive, with conference attendees discussing prognosis and further surgery or treatment.