Curriculum

Curriculum

 

Population Health 

 All Authority Health residents complete a one year course through University of Michigan School of Public Health in population health, a training program designed to build physicians' awareness and skills to support patient health from a population health perspective. Residents meet together once a month for the duration of the course

This past year, the course was two years long and the last semester of hard work all led up to an Advocacy and Health Promotion Project with groups presenting lightening talks on policy implementations via Zoom. Our very own pediatric senior residents (Olabode, Tabatha, Morgan and Jasmine) won the competition with their Safety Baby Seats Policy. Our residents were so creative in delivering their arguments that they went as far as creating an instagram (@Safetybabyseats) for safe/proper installation of car seats and a twitter account (@Narcan4Detroit) for free and easy narcan access, presenting a skit resembling real life situations to encourage increased flu vaccine rates and designing billboards to advocate for safer sidewalks around Detroit. 

 

Continuity Clinics

Authority Health partners with various clinics throughout the community. 

Clinics include:

- Detroit Community Health Connection (DCHC) clinic: DCHC is a FQHC, a non-profit community-based primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable, and quality service to all members of the community. They provide a variety of services including: pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, dentistry, and more. If your child needs an appointment or needs to be updated on immunizations please call 313.822.0900 or visit their website at http://dchcquality.com/

 

Wellness Days

Our wellness days are held once a month with each resident participating every other month (so all residents aren't pulled from the hospital the same day every month). They allow us to bond together away from the hospital with a slower paced day (late start and early wrap up). We get some time to laugh together and usually the afternoon to work on required residency task.

Call Months

Is Grey's Anatomy actually what being a resident is like? If you've ever wondered about this we're going to break down one aspect of residency that fits a TV drama series: 24 hour call shifts. In the Authority Health Pediatric Residency we have 4 services where we do 24 hour calls every 4th day (newborn, pediatric ICU, hematology/oncology and infectious disease) , so that means that the on call resident works with the regular team during the day then continues the shift throughout the night until they then signout to the day team the next morning. The benefits to call shifts include having more continuity, so the night resident was present during the daytime discussions on the team's patients rather than taking a signout from another resident. Additionally, residents get more time off during the days (because when they finish a 24 hour call in the morning, they aren't scheduled again until the next day) which allows them to catch up on errands and spend time with loved ones. For resident and patient safety, residents are only allowed to take care of patients for a maximum of 24 hours plus 4 hours to wrap things up before they must be away from the hospital for at least 10 hours before returning.