Didactic Education - Internal Medicine Residency

We are back for HYBRID conferences!!!

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

Below is the monthly conference schedule we follow to ensure a wide variety of topics are covered throughout the year.

	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	Inpatient chief resident	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Journal Club - resident lead
12 PM Week 2	Subspecialty core	Outpatient chief resident	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Wellness Conference
12 PM Week 3	Subspecialty core	Inpatient chief resident	Grand Rounds	Subspecialty core	Board Review- resident lead
12 PM Week 4	Subspecialty core	GIM faculty outpatient	Grand Rounds / CPC	Subspecialty core	M&M

We offer a wide variety of conferences to meet the needs of all of our learners.  

• 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, GI, Heme-Onc, Nephrology, Pulmonary/Critical Care and Rheumatology.
• GIM faculty outpatient case conference:  Using the Yale Curriculum in Primary Care, case discussion are led by the primary care chief resident and our General Internal Medicine faculty. 
• 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.