Population health management is an important part of comprehensive primary care. Internal Medicine resident trainees oversee care for a panel of continuity clinic patients for the duration of their three-year training program. During that time, residents must develop mastery in care of a diverse array of important chronic illnesses. This is a curriculum with vast content learning expectations, so facilitating retention of new learning is critical. Retention of new clinical learning can be solidified when didactic learning is linked to real patient and provider interactions: we identified panel-based population management as a potential keystone in our ambulatory teaching for residents.