Outpatient Clinics

Atrium Health – Myers Park Internal Medicine Clinic

Myers Park Clinic serves as the main ambulatory training site for our residents. Myers Park Clinic is located less than two blocks from the hospital, and physician parking is available on-site in a covered deck with key-card entry.

In addition to general medicine and various medicine specialty clinics, Myers Park houses clinics in surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and orthopedic surgery. A pharmacy, phlebotomy lab, pharmacy-run anticoagulation clinic and a radiology suite are available in the clinic as well.

Our internal medicine clinic is certified as a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) with very high patient and employee satisfaction rates. The PCMH is a team-based model of care led by a patient's primary care physician who provides continuous and coordinated care to maximize health outcomes.

General Internal Medicine Clinic

Our residents spend time in ambulatory practice at Myers Park Clinic throughout their training. Our categorical residents are assigned a panel of continuity patients and serve as their primary care physician over the course of their residency training. Our preliminary residents also spend time at Myers Park Clinic but their ambulatory experience is tailored more to seeing hospital follow-up and urgent care visits.

The general internal medicine clinic is staffed by residents with supervision from internal medicine faculty. The ratio of attending staff to resident is never more than 1:3 and often is 1:2. This low resident/faculty ratio allows more time for teaching in clinic.

Interns will begin the year with three patients per clinic session and gradually increase throughout residency until their third year. They may see up to 7 patients per session by the end of their PGY-3 year. We have a Firm system in the clinic to develop mentoring relationships and assist with coverage of clinic responsibilities.

To reduce tensions between fulfilling inpatient and outpatient duties, our residents do not have any continuity clinic scheduled during inpatient months. Specifically, our residents do not have any ambulatory clinic sessions scheduled during their Staff Medicine, CCU, MICU, or ED rotations. Conversely, residents have longitudinal continuity clinic exposure scheduled during their various specialty consult and elective months. Residents are scheduled for a dedicated block ambulatory medicine rotation each year. Whenever a resident is scheduled for continuity clinic, any elective clinical responsibilities are handled by other team members and/or the attending physician to minimize disruptions to patient care and learning. Finally, all residents spend time in the ambulatory setting when rotating on the various consult and specialty blocks. This dedicated outpatient time during electives allows residents to get a full view of the scope and breadth of the subspecialty.

Full time ancillary staff at the clinic includes:

• Nutritionist/dietitian
• Diabetes educators
• Clinical pharmacists
• Mental health counselors
• Social workers
• Community health workers
• Case management team

 

We also have diabetes and hypertension disease management clinics run by our clinic PharmDs that work closely with us to comanage patients. We serve a broad range of patients, including insured and uninsured, patients with chronic complex care needs, multiple barriers to care, autistic & developmental disorders, language barriers, but also a mix of young healthy patients. We have excellent access to medical translators in each of our clinic exam rooms.

Subspecialty Clinics

While on subspecialty consult blocks, residents participate in subspecialty outpatient clinics that serve the Myers Park Clinic population. The attending to resident ratio is 1:1 for most these clinics. House officers on subspecialty rotations attend 1-3 subspecialty clinics per week depending on the rotation. There are no subspecialty clinic duties during the rotations on staff medicine, MICU or ED.

Current subspecialty clinic offerings include:

Myers Park Clinic Recognition

The Myers Park Internal Medicine Clinic group has been recognized in many ways. In addition to being a certified as a Patient-Centered Medical Home, some of the highlights include:

FPN Shooting Star Award: Awarded to our Myers Park Internal Medicine Clinic nursing team for going beyond the call of duty

Touchstone Awards: For team-based quality initiatives to improve screening for diabetic neuropathy and for reducing hospital readmissions through team-based care coordination

AHRQ funded Grants: For asthma shared-decision-making, health coaching and reducing hospital readmissions

Outpatient Faculty have been honored with Multiple Awards including Medical Student and Residency Teaching Awards, Advocate/Atrium System wide Diversity Equity Inclusion Awards, Advocate/Atrium System wide Community Engagement and Volunteering Awards