Curriculum
The curriculum follows Patricia Benner’s Novice to Expert framework and a competency-based model. A baseline assessment shapes each resident’s learning plan, and quarterly evaluations by preceptors, program leadership, and residents themselves track progress across the year.
Weekly Schedule
Clinical Practice: Four Days
Residents see patients in CompleteCare Health Network’s primary care offices in Gloucester and Cumberland counties, with preceptors on site. Focused experiences include pediatrics, women’s health, behavioral health, substance use treatment, and HIV and hepatitis C care.
Didactic Learning: One Day
Residents spend one day each week at Rutgers–Camden in case-based lectures, workshops, and simulation and standardized patient sessions, supported by monthly career coaching and resiliency programming.
Didactic Topics by Quarter
Select a quarter to view its topics.
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- Focused history, interviewing, and documentation
- Selecting, ordering, and interpreting laboratory tests
- Stages of change and patient self-management in primary care
- Billing and coding
- Pediatric growth and development (newborn to early adolescence): screening, assessment, identification, and referral
- Immunizations across the lifespan, typical and atypical schedules
- Hypertension: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- Chronic heart failure: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- EKG interpretation
- Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD): assessment and management
- Diabetes care: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
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- Antibiotic selection and stewardship
- Anxiety and depression: screening, assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- ADHD: screening, assessment, treatment, and patient and family education
- Pediatric growth and development (adolescence to adulthood): screening, assessment, identification, and referral
- Pediatric asthma: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient and family education
- Adult asthma: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- Neonatal jaundice and hyperbilirubinemia
- Chronic kidney disease: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- Preoperative evaluations
- Orthopedics (upper and lower extremities and back): assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- Pain management: pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches
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- Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
- Contraception, including intrauterine device selection, insertion, and counseling
- Cervical cancer screening and management of abnormal Pap results
- Sexually transmitted infections: testing, treatment, and counseling
- Menopause: assessment, management, counseling, and education
- Trauma-informed care for patients with a history of physical, sexual, or emotional trauma
- HIV: prevention, screening, testing, and pharmacologic management in primary care
- Chronic liver disease: assessment, diagnosis, management, and patient education
- Hepatitis C: screening, assessment, management, and patient education
- Lipid management
- Thyroid disorders
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Tobacco cessation, including motivational interviewing
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- Spanish for Healthcare Professionals (continued)
- Oral health: prevention, assessment, and management
- Geriatrics: assessment and management of common concerns in older adults
- Podiatry: foot examination and common podiatric problems
- Skin lesions and rashes
- Suturing
- Wound, ostomy, and continence care
- Being on call: after-hours assessment and management