Didactic Education - Internal Medicine Residency

Our program offers a robust didactic curriculum with noon conference held five days a week.  All conferences are recorded and available for later viewing.  These conferences are considered protected education time for all residents.  

In addition to daily noon conference, residents on subspecialty rotations (MICU, PCS, Cancer Center) receive additional subspecialty specific didactic lectures to enhance their clinical learning.

Academic Half-Days

Interns and residents attend an Academic Half-Day 1 afternoon during each AGIM, CGIM and Y-block. During this protected education time, residents are exposed to a huge variety of topics using various learning formats facilitated by our faculty.  Examples include, primary care, business of medicine including documentation, billing and coding, medical education training, high value care, journal club and senior resident led conferences, among others.

Monthly Conference Schedule

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Subspecialty Conference	Case Conference	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty Conference	Misc
8 AM weekly					VA Morning Report
12 PM Week 1	Subspecialty core	Chief Resident Session	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Board Review
12 PM Week 2	Subspecialty core	Chief Resident Session	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Wellness Conference
12 PM Week 3	Subspecialty core	Chief Resident Session	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Interdisciplinary Topics
12 PM Week 4	Subspecialty core	Chief Resident Session	CPC	Subspecialty core	M&M

 

• Board Review: Chief resident and resident lead conference to review MKSAP questions to prepare for the certifying exam from the ABIM.
• Chief Resident Case Conference: Our chief residents lead an interactive discussion of a recent case from one of our inpatient services. 
• Subspecialty Core Conference: Led by our subspecialty medicine faculty and fellows on variety of internal medicine topics. includes Cardiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, GI, Heme-Onc, Nephrology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Rheumatology, Hospital medicine, Neurology and Palliative care 
• Simulations: Done in our sim center for residents to gain skills in managing rapid responses and code blue situations.
• POCUS and procedures: Training in performing bedside ultrasound, central and peripheral line placement, LPs, IOs and other procedures.
• Journal Club: Residents review and present evidence based medicine with faculty guidance to gain skills in critical appraisal of the literature and clinical application. 
• Literature in Medicine: Residents gather to read and reflect on short stories, poetry and essays.
• Medical Grand Rounds: Weekly conference for the Department of Medicine where expert speakers from our faculty and guest lectures present clinically relevant and timely topics. Featured lectures include the annual Resident Research Grand Rounds and monthly Clinical Pathologic Conference. 
• Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Monthly series presented by our PSQI chief resident. Creates an opportunity for residents to discuss recent cases and improve their patient safety knowledge and systems based practice. 
• Senior Resident Conference: Each senior resident writes a manuscript about a clinical or research topic of their choosing with the most outstanding manuscripts presented at the end of the year. 
• Medical Ethics Conference: Quarterly interactive case discussion presented by medical ethics faculty.