Internal Medicine Residency

1. Develop individual learning plans that provide foundational education in general internal medicine that will prepare residents for diverse clinical and academic settings including hospitalist medicine, primary care medicine and subspecialty care
2. Engage our residents in scholarship, patient safety and quality improvement to instill the values of innovative lifelong learning
3. Empower our physicians as clinical instructors, developing effective teachers of peers and undergraduate medical students
4. Create leaders of multidisciplinary teams
5. Foster resident and faculty camaraderie, address the importance of physician wellness and teach our residents resiliency skills

• Noon report (three per week) – Conducted by chief resident and a key faculty member, interesting cases or admissions from the teaching services are presented to discuss clinical presentations, differential diagnoses, diagnostic dilemmas, appropriate interventions and therapeutics.
• Formal resident patient handoffs – Occurs twice a day to ensure the upmost quality and safety with transitioning care to covering residents.
• Teaching rounds (daily) – Each inpatient team, led by one faculty member, spend one to two hours discussing patients on the service with an emphasis placed on bedside teaching.
• Grand Rounds – Weekly
• Mortality chart review, safety cases and readmission root cause analysis – A regularly occurring conference built on our noon report and didactic sessions. The emphasis is on proving safe, timely and effective care, rooting in the six core ACGME competencies.
• Morbidity and mortality (one per block) – Formal presentation by senior level residents at grand rounds.
• Continuity clinic lecture daily in clinic – Each week, residents are provided reading material addressing multiple aspects of outpatient/ambulatory care medicine which include non-medicine subject matters such as ethics, billing, coding, running a practice, and more. Prior to each clinic, the reading material is discussed with a key faculty member(s) who staff the afternoon clinics.
• Core curriculum lectures (weekly) – The core curriculum is given as a three hour lecture block each Friday. This is protected time free of clinical duties for the education of our residents. All disciplines within the field of medicine are presented by community subspecialists to prepare our residents for board certification in internal medicine.
• Journal club/evidence-based medicine reviews (one-two per block) – Upper level residents select peer-reviewed journal articles that are critically reviewed by house staff.
• Procedure skills lab (two per year) – This two to three hour session gives residents the opportunity to hone procedure skills such as intubations, thoracentesis, central access, and more. In addition, mock codes are performed each block.

• We require three letters of recommendation; one clinical letter of recommendation from an internal medicine faculty and one Department of Medicine summary letter of evaluation, the final letter of recommendation can be from clinical faculty or a scholarly project mentor
• We prefer passing scores on the first attempt on both USMLE Step 1 and Step 2
• MD applicants: Results for Step 2 must be available to be considered for ranking
• DO applicants: We prefer USMLE Steps 1 and 2 but will accept COMLEX 1 and 2
• We prefer applicants who have graduated medical school within the past two years
• All applicants must possess U.S. work authorization or be eligible for J-1 status

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