Ambulatory Experience | Emory School of Medicine

The outpatient ambulatory experience is the cornerstone of Emory's internal medicine residency program. Resident continuity clinic occurs at one of three sites - the Grady Primary Care Center, Emory Clinic at 1525, and Emory Clinic at Midtown. In each of these settings, residents are precepted and supported by a core group of general medicine faculty that prioritize individualized learning and longitudinal faculty mentorship. Our ambulatory experience is structured specifically to prioritize each residents' responsibility for a core panel of patients. Our patients identify their residents and their primary care providers, which we feel is fundamental in progressing toward competent independent practice.

Emory and Grady

Find out how our residents are making a difference in the ambulatory setting.

4+1 Block Schedule

Our program adopted an X+Y schedule in July 2020, with four weeks of inpatient and subspecialty rotations (X block) followed by one week of ambulatory and continuity clinic (Y block). In this system, residents will experience:

The ability to fully immerse in a rotation rather than interspersing clinic into wards rotations
A golden weekend every five weeks, free of call or jeopardy/back-up call duties
Ambulatory/Y block will have four to five half days of continuity clinic, two half days of didactics, and two-three half days for an outpatient subspecialty
PGY2s will have the opportunity for a "Y selective" in which they choose an IM subspecialty clinic to rotate in during the Y block, typically with the same attending. This longitudinal experience is an additional opportunity for career mentorship, scholarship connections, and supporting fellowship application.