The first year residents of both programs accompanied a nurse during home visits to children with disabilities. This served several purposes: 1) It provided the initial exposure to the homes and the community where St. Barnabas’ patients live; 2) the visiting nurse, an experienced health care provider, modeled appropriate in-home professional behavior and sensitive interviewing skills; and 3) the residents experienced that they were both safe and welcomed in a family’s home. The pediatric residents were excused for one-half day from their well baby rotation and the family medicine residents were excused from one-half day of outpatient FM rotation.
