Paul Baillargeon, D.O. Family Practice

Carrie Peecher, Chief Family Medicine Resident

Carrie Peecher, Cheif Family Medicine Resident

What attracted me to NRMC was the staff and family atmosphere. They follow the principals of God first, family second and career third. There is a lot of respect for the individuals and their lives. Residents are not just used up here, but valued. We are taught to treat our patients as our family members and that makes a big difference in how you feel about your work and patients. The faculty are compassionate and concerned about our learning. They want us to be the best doctors that we can be. They encourage us to push ourselves, grow, and think outside the box.

I did my post graduate at KCOM and we have a great relationship with the university. Often we teach students using their Human Patient Simulation Lab. It is a great opportunity to get hands on teaching experience with great students and facilities.

I know other fellow residents who felt very prepared to graduate from residency after the thorough training they received at NRMC. They always talk positively about how NRMC prepared them for their medical careers.

FAMILY PRACTICE
Neuromusculoskeletal
Medicine

Program Directors

Dr. Robert Schneider (Family Practice)
Eric Snider, D.O. (Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine) serves as a Co-Director

Number of Total Slots Approved

(including OGME 1) 4

Program Description

This is a four year program integrating the Family Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine) residency requirements satisfying both specialty colleges. It is designed to lead to dual certification in these two specialties in an educationally cohesive manner. The resident will participate in coordinated educational opportunities in both Family Medicine and OMM Departments designed to maximize the application of osteopathic principles and practices (OPP) and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in these settings. Graduates will have gained experience to comfortably provide either primary care management or Neuromusculoskeletal medicine specialty-level consultations in both in-patient and out-patient arenas. Seamless integration of OPP and Family Medicine skills placed in practice is the goal of the program. The program benefits from the supervision of a number of board-certified specialists in many fields to review the body’s functional anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology and offer time-efficient and effective methods to support rational osteopathic medical reasoning and management. The program further insures a variety of distinctively osteopathic methods, skills and approaches to patients in family practice, pediatrics, rheumatology, surgery, orthopedics, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, neurology, OMM, rehabilitation and sports medicine. Teaching first and second year medical students is a major component of the program.

Program Outline

OGME-2 Year Integrated Residency Training

35% (700 hours) devoted to ambulant patient care
15% (300 hours) devoted to in-hospital patient care
25% (500 hours) devoted to teaching, writing and investigative skills
15% (300 hours) devoted to rotations meeting joint programming requirements
10% (200 hours) devoted to off campus training assignments, participation in CME programs (as student and/or teacher) and vacation time

Each of the Third and Fourth Year Integrated Residency Training

25% (1000 hours) devoted to training at an OMM consultation level for patients in psychiatry, internal medicine, surgery, OB/Gyn, neonatal nursery, rheumatology, structural evaluations, and family practice
30% (600 hours) devoted to ambulatory primary osteopathic family practice care
17% (340 hours) devoted to electives
8% (160 hours) devoted to training in multi-disciplinary clinics
10% (200 hours) devoted to rotations meeting joint programming
10% (200 hours) devoted to teaching, writing and investigative skills

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