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
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- Categorical
- Preliminary
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- IM Floors
- 16
- 16
-
- Nights
- 4
- 4
-
- ICU
- 8
- 8
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- EM
- 0
- 4
-
- PCP Clinic
- 10
- 0
-
- Cardiology
- 0
- 4
-
- ID
- 4
- 4
-
- Neurology
- 4
- 4
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- Electives
- 2
- 4
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- 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