This is a two-week block experience in which residents are immersed in their outpatient office practices in order to increase comfort and confidence with moving care forward in the ambulatory setting. The experience includes curriculum in telemedicine, ambulatory triage, urgent care, and panel management. Residents attend outpatient didactics with their colleagues. In addition, there are opportunities to participate in enrichment clinics in such topics as addiction medicine, refugee health, women’s health, and gender-affirming care. This rotation gives residents a feel for what is really like to have outpatient careers and it has helped many residents refine their career interests.

Rotation Objectives
- Increase comfort and competence with logistics of outpatient medical practice
- Foster interdisciplinary teamwork with practice staff to ensure safe, efficient, and effective care
- Develop telemedicine skills, including appropriate and effective triaging and contingency planning for more urgent patient complaints via telephone medicine and secure electronic messaging
- Increase knowledge base and confidence in approaching common outpatient complaints and scenarios through discussion as a firm team and participation in and/or delivery of firm report
- Participate in primary care-related journal club to review updates and evidence in general internal medicine.