Lankenau Hospital has an Internal Medicine Clinical Care Center onsite under the leadership of Dr. Susan Burke, Director, and Sandra Knoll, Associate Director, which administers to the care of patients from many nearby communities.  As with other areas of our residency, the outpatient setting provides a balance of rigorous academic teaching and valuable clinical exposure. Each categorical resident will build their own panel of patients over a three-year period.  Every effort is made to provide continuity of care for patients from the inpatient to the outpatient setting. 

Residents also get experience with sick visits, urgent care and telephone medicine.  Over the course of three years, all categorical residents will attend weekly continuity care sessions and develop proficiency in evaluating and treating patients with a variety of medical disorders under the supervision of attending physicians.  Particular emphasis is placed on clinical question generation and evidenced based clinical decision making.

All categorical residents will do (in addition to their weekly scheduled continuity clinics) carefully structured ambulatory block rotations that include clinical experiences in Dermatology, ENT, Sports Medicine, Pain Management, Physical Therapy, nutrition And diabetes, Ob/Gyn, Ophthalmology, and practice management as well as additional clinic time and a home visit session.  Our osteopathic preliminary interns are also scheduled in family practice ambulatory rotations.

Opportunities to rotate with seasoned Internal Medicine physicians as well as subspecialists with offices onsite are available throughout the training program.

In the R3 year, the resident will serve a geriatric rotation at Saunders House, a nursing home facility, which is located on the property adjacent to Lankenau Hospital and will also split this rotation serving as Clinic Chief in the Clinical Care Center.