Program Components

The R2Plus curriculum comprises the following components:

• Clinical Teaching and Academic Medicine

• Academic Full Days

• Family medicine clinics

• Half-day electives

• Home care or long-term care

• Weeklong selectives (emergency medicine, hospitalist medicine, or palliative care)

Program Structure

To ease the transition to practice, the R2Plus program has been designed to reflect the real-world schedules of working physicians.

Residents will therefore benefit from a practice based in the GMF-U while providing periodic weeklong coverage in hospital and providing home care or long-term care one half-day a week. In addition, residents will pursue their own interests during two weekly half-day elective slots. Components have been accorded time as follows:

• Clinical Teaching and Academic Medicine (2–3 half-days per week)

• Academic Full Days (one full day every two weeks)

• Family medicine clinics (3–4 half-days per week)

• Half-day electives (2 half-days per week)

• Home care or long-term care (one half-day per week)

• Weeklong selectives (4 one-week exposures to each of the two disciplines over the course of the six-month program)

For sample timetables, see below: