Lifestyle Medicine

This track is for the resident who wants to gain the knowledge and skills to help their patients, communities, and themselves achieve better health by motivating and supporting change toward healthier behaviors.  Resident will take a deeper dive into motivational interviewing, motivating change, and addressing the specific pillars of Lifestyle Medicine including what we eat, how we move, the quantity and quality of sleep, how we manage stress, connect to our community and purpose, and avoid toxic substances.  While all residents get at least 40 hours of didactics and hands-on activities in Lifestyle Medicine, the Lifestyle Medicine resident will complete an additional 60 hours of education and prep, including helping lead an intensive therapeutic lifestyle group visit experience for patients.  Experience and statistics show that physicians have a high rate of stress, overwhelm and burnout.    If completed in its entirety, the LM track will prepare the resident for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine Board Exam and Certification at the end of residency. 

Faculty Development

This track is ideally suited for the resident that foresees a career in academic family medicine, teaching medical students and/or residents. Blocks would include opportunities to serve as a “junior preceptor” for rotating medical students and first year residents. Participation in OhioHealth system-wide faculty development activities would be available. Residents in this track will be assigned a mentor with a senior OhioHealth faculty member to help plan their career. A scholarly project is required that will demonstrate the resident’s skills in both investigating a topic and presenting it to a regional audience.

Quality and Patient Safety/Population Health

This track will prepare residents to serve within their practices, hospitals or health systems leading quality and safety teams. Blocks would allow residents time to focus on quality and safety projects that they develop and implement them in the family medicine center or the hospital. Longitudinal participation in office and hospital QI and Safety committees will be expected during the second and third year of training. Residents in this track will be assigned a mentor with a senior OhioHealth faculty member serving in a quality and safety position. A QI project is required that will demonstrate the resident’s skills in both successful project and presenting it to a regional audience.

Leadership Development

If a resident aspires to a career in any form of health care leadership – practice, hospital, health system, or specialty organizations (OAFP, AAFP) – this track will be invaluable. A block may be used to focus on a leadership development project, but most of this track will be a longitudinal experience. The resident will be expected to review several articles and books on leadership and review the lessons learned in this study at a regional conference. A member of the OhioHealth or DMH leadership team will be assigned to the resident as a mentor and time spent will help the resident formulate a career path and identify skills to be developed.

Practice Management

This track is ideally suited for the resident who wishes to learn the ins and outs of running an efficient outpatient practice.  Becoming an Epic PowerUser and periodic Epic efficiency reviews will also be included in this track.  Participation in the office workflow workgroup will be included.  There will also be a longitudinal curriculum involved to explore different types of practices and different systems.   A member of the Dublin Family Medicine residency faculty will be mentor residents interested in this track.  

Obesity Medicine

This track is for the resident who wants to gain proficiency in the care of patients with obesity and related disorders into their post-residency care of patients, and potentially become board certified in Obesity Medicine. Residents will gain multidisciplinary, multi-modality experience in the care of patients with obesity. An obesity medicine focused scholarly project will be completed and presented to a regional audience. An obesity medicine certified physician will mentor residents in this track.

International Medicine

The process of traveling abroad to practice medicine can be complicated but worthwhile! This track helps streamline the process of finding and pursuing an elective rotation in another country, typically during second or third year. OhioHealth has relationships with several locations already, and those destinations are preferred, but it is possible to create your own experience if the process is started early enough.