Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Center

An integrated Medicine/Pediatrics faculty-resident practice located in a medical office building on the Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital Campus provides residents with their main ambulatory continuity experience. The Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care Center (MPPCC) is staffed by residents and faculty together in a collaborative group practice model. We care for families of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds from neighboring communities. MPPCC Faculty includes:

• Clinic Director: Dr. Jennifer Gartman (M/P)
• Dr. Kimberly Babb (M/P)
• Dr. Sybil Cineas (M/P)
• Dr. Jennifer Gartman (M/P)
• Dr. Nicholas Grumbach (M/P)
• Dr. Jerome Larkin (M/P)
• Dr. Kristin Lehr Anderson (M/P)
• Dr. Suzanne McLaughlin (M/P)
• Dr. Elizabeth Toll (M/P)

Med/Peds interns begin their continuity experience in the MPPCC in July of their intern year and continue there for four years with one half-day session per week for the first two years and 1-2 half-day sessions per week for years 3 and 4. Opportunities are available for PGY3&4 residents to attend a continuity experience with clinical Med/Peds faculty in community-based offices and neighborhood health center settings as well. Our practice consists of ~55% adults and 45% children. Our patient population includes many adolescents. The MPPCC enjoys a well-established referral program, receiving new patients from:

• Hasbro Teen-Tot Clinic, a primary care program focusing on teenage mothers and their children. Patients who "outgrow" the Teen-Tot clinic transfer their care to The Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Center.

• Women & Infants Hospital located on our campus and the site of residents' Neonatal Intensive Care, Normal Newborn Nursery, and Adult Obstetric Medicine Consultation Service rotations. Residents self-refer infants to our practice. Women & Infants Hospital is the 10th largest obstetric hospital in the country and serves as an invaluable resource for clinical training for Med/Peds Residents.

• Pediatric and Adult Inpatient, Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centers.

• "Graduates" of Pediatric Subspecialty Practices are referred to the MPPCC for care through the late adolescence/adult years. We receive many referrals from Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Endocrinology, Cardiologyand the Transitional Consult Service.

• Refugee Clinic patients who elect to stay on in Primary Care.

• Word of Mouth referrals from our surrounding community, an ethnically diverse and underserved population with many young families and elderly individuals, often in extended and multigenerational families.