Curriculum

Program Curriculum

While much of Internal Medicine Residency revolves around clinical learning and the practice of medicine, there is still a significant emphasis placed on traditional classroom learning.

Most of our educational lectures and core-curriculum didactics occur on an academic half-day held once a week. This model enhances resident education and eliminates interruptions from clinical duties. Lecturers will include program leadership, program faculty, hospital specialists, ancillary staff and administration. While maintaining a strong emphasis on internal medicine, sessions will also be devoted to covering non-clinical topics so that residents are prepared to practice medicine independently at the end of residency. These topics will include things such as an overview of insurance types, post-hospital discharge options, prior authorizations, FMLA paperwork, and appropriate documentation with the code that best supports the level of billing.

Day-to-day educational content not only involves clinical learning during rotations, but also noon report. Similar to morning report, a case will be presented and discussed. Transitioning morning report to the noon hour, optimizes educational learning, while prioritizing patient care and early discharges.

All residents are required to participate in scholarly activity. When it comes to Quality Improvement, a longitudinal curriculum will initially focus on the background and theory of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, after which residents will develop and implement their own quality improvement projects.

Residents will also apply parts of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety curriculum to our monthly adverse event analysis series, also known as Morbidity and Mortality.

We utilize a 4+1 (X+Y) schedule to allow for uninterrupted inpatient experience or elective, followed by a single week of continuity clinic.

Below is a sample schedule for an intern year: