Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS)

On the Family Medicine Inpatient Service (FMIS), residents care for all Valley Family Medicine patients admitted to Valley Medical Center, including those who need CCU-level care. Residents also admit and care for patients whose primary care is at other clinics. Because residents follow their own patients from the clinic into the hospital and back again, FMIS offers true continuity of care across the full spectrum of illness.

The full spectrum of hospital medicine

Residents on FMIS see a wide range of acuity and complexity, from common admissions and exacerbations of chronic illness to medically complex, critically ill patients who need multidisciplinary care, across a broad range of diagnoses.

Dedicated inpatient curriculum

Teaching is built into every day on FMIS. A sample day of inpatient didactics:

Sample FMIS didactic schedule
Time	Activity
7:00–7:15 AM	Morning teachingShort cases on chest X-rays, ECGs, and dermatologic and physical exam findings, run by the night senior resident.
9:30–10:30 AM	VFM roundsOn Tuesdays and Thursdays, our clinical pharmacist, Vivian Cheng, PharmD, joins rounds as a resource for inpatient pharmacy questions and for pharmacy-focused teaching.
10:30–11:15 AM	Rounding with hospitalists
12:30 PM	Noon conferenceMonthly Radiology Rounds, Valley Medical Center Grand Rounds, or FMIS inpatient didactics on core topics.

Palliative care rounds, a dedicated space to discuss the challenges of caring for seriously ill patients

Point-of-care ultrasound

The inpatient service has its own point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum. Dedicated portable ultrasound devices and multiple POCUS-trained staff support dedicated POCUS didactics and hands-on application with residents' own patients.

The FMIS team
FMIS: class of 2027

Hands-on

Code Blue and Rapid Response training

In Code Blue and Rapid Response simulation training, residents rehearse resuscitation and the response to a deteriorating patient as a team.

Code Blue and Rapid Response simulation
Code simulation: class of 2028
Mock Code Training in the ORs
Mock code training
Mock code training
Mock code training: class of 2027
Mock code training: class of 2027

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