Internal Medicine Residency Educational Experience

Educational Experience and Rotation Schedule

• The academic year is divided into 4-week inpatient blocks followed by 1-week ambulatory blocks.
  • The 4-week inpatient blocks are assigned to wards, ICU, elective or selective rotations.
  • The 1-week ambulatory blocks are devoted solely to ambulatory clinics which include continuity clinics, non-IM subspecialty clinics and one afternoon of Ambulatory Didactics.

Sample PGY-1 Schedule

• Number of Weeks
• • Categorical
  • Preliminary
• • IM Floors
  • 16
  • 16
• • Nights
  • 4
  • 4
• • ICU
  • 8
  • 8
• • EM
  • 0
  • 4
• • PCP Clinic
  • 10
  • 0
• • Cardiology
  • 0
  • 4
• • ID
  • 4
  • 4
• • Neurology
  • 4
  • 4
• • Electives
  • 2
  • 4
• • Vacation
  • 4
  • 4

Workshops

• Evidence-Based Medicine workshop
• Residents as Teachers

Didactics

• Morning Report
• Noon Conference
• Morbidity & Mortality Conference
• Tumor Board
• Journal Club
• Medical Jeopardy/ Trivia
• Ambulatory Didactics Series
• High Value Care Curriculum
• Integrative Medicine Curriculum
• Research Lecture Series

Our unique 4 + 1 schedule offers 4 weeks of rotation (Inpatient floors, ICU or Elective) followed by 1 week of dedicated ambulatory time. This schedule:

• Allows for a more rewarding and uninterrupted outpatient as well as inpatient experience
• Allows the residents to experience a “Group Practice” model as they work in cohorts providing coverage for each other’s continuity clinic patients when their PCP is not in clinic
• Allows for ample continuity with residents’ patient panel