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Defining Longitudinal Curriculum


A longitudinal curriculum is one in which residents are based in the family practice center every day or nearly every day of all 3 years of their residency training.
from Longitudinal Residency Training in Family Medicine: Not Ready for Prime Time Barry D. Weiss, MD

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Examples

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Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

University of California at Davis Pediatric Residents

University of California at Irvine Longitudinal Rotations in Long Term Care

Australian National Medical School

Tacoma Family Medicine

University of Toronto

University of Rochester Medical Scientist Program includes a longitudinal clerkship with a physician

Brown University

University of Vermont

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Articles

Longitudinal Pedagogy: A Successful Response to the Fragmentation of the Third-Year Medical Student Clerkship Experience.

A longitudinal subspecialty experience for internal medicine residents

A community based, patient-centred, longitudinal medical curriculum

MSSP Art of Family Medicine

Formative and Competency-Based Assessment of Learners in a Longitudinal Curriculum

A Combined Longitudinal Nursing Home Experience for Family Practice and Internal Medicine Residents



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