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Conferences and Training

Overlook Family Medicine Residency conferences are held several days a week at lunchtime, and are supplemented by bi-monthly block conference mornings covering core family medicine clinical topics, including:

• Conferences with patient participants; including monthly adult psychiatry conferences
• Bi-weekly OB/GYN conferences
• Monthly evidence-based medicine and preventive medicine conferences
• Monthly workshops in gynecologic procedures, casting and splinting, suturing and other office-based procedures, using state-of-the-art training models
• Monthly health systems management (practice management) conference
• Monthly osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT) workshop
• Monthly musculoskeletal and sports medicine conference

Other lunchtime activities include the Balint Group; resident, faculty and office management meetings; and other learning and supportive activities.

Patient Turnover

Family Medicine faculty and residents meet each weekday morning to discuss daily progress of inpatients, exchange information and develop consensus on the clinical care of each inpatient. At each patient turnover, there is a short lecture covering inpatient and Family Medicine issues raised in previous reports and precepting.

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)

EBM training begins in the first year, with one-on-one education in search strategies on evidence-based websites; preparation for and presentation at the program’s monthly EBM conference; and ongoing involvement in raising and answering clinical questions using EBM resources during precepting, patient turnover and the monthly conference.

Research is an important element of medical education. Each resident is required to develop a scholarly project, such as an evidence-based review of a clinical topic, during their training. Our program is an active member of the Family Practice Inquiries Network, which gives our residents access to submit their evidence-based reviews for publication in Evidence-Based Practice. Attendance at the monthly conference and other teaching programs acquaints residents with the EBM process, and faculty mentorship is provided. Alternatively, the resident may pursue another type of project, with Family Medicine faculty or with a non-Family Medicine medical specialist’s supervision. Help with data collection, analysis and Institutional Review Board (IRB) review are available.

Residents and faculty may present their work at the annual Atlantic Health Research Day, a juried competition. Should your research be accepted for presentation at a regional or national conference, the residency program will fund your travel.

Global Health

Global health activities are highly valued by the residency program. Through a global health experience (arranged either by the resident or chosen from a list of pre-established opportunities), the resident has an opportunity to learn about geographically distinct illnesses, the diagnosis and management of illness in culturally diverse settings, and the relationship of socioeconomic factors to health and health care delivery. The site and experience must be pre-approved by the program director; upon completion of the rotation the resident presents a review of their experience. All global health experiences are funded by the Benjamin H. Josephson, MD Fund, a foundation established to honor a founder of the residency, through the Department of Family Medicine.

Partner Medical Schools

Overlook Family Medicine Residency Program offers medical students at our partner medical schools opportunities to participate in a third year outpatient family medicine/primary care rotation. Our partner medical schools include Mount Sinai School of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Osteopathic Medicine and St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada.

Students spend time in both the Chatham and Summit offices and the Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, and also accompany residents and faculty on home visits.