Internal Medicine Residency Educational Experience

Rotation Schedule

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 and Didactics

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

Ambulatory Experience

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