Curriculum
| Sample Schedule for Transitional Year Residents | |
| July | Emergency Medicine |
| August | ICU |
| September | Neurology |
| October | Hematology/Oncology |
| November | Surgery |
| December | Surgery |
| January | Endocrinology |
| February | General Medicine Floor |
| March | Telemetry |
| April | Ambulatory Medicine |
| May | Pulmonary Medicine |
| June | General Medicine Floor |
Didactic experience
Teaching conferences are held in conjunction with daily attending rounds. Each sponsoring department holds major conferences every month, in addition to grand rounds, and the morbidity and mortality conference. Residents attend lectures associated with their particular rotation and others that do not conflict with their patient care responsibilities. These conferences are well attended by both faculty and house staff, which encourages the active interchange of ideas.
Conferences include:
Morning Reports
Case-based morning reports
A favorite among housestaff, these morning reports are an interactive discussion of cases presented by chief residents and residents to peers and attendings.
Ambulatory morning reports
A weekly review prepared by residents of cases from their ambulatory continuity clinic.
Resident grand rounds
Weekly formal lectures prepared by residents providing an overview of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of various disease processes.
Med/Surg conference
Discussion of cases in conjunction with surgical and medical services.
Mid-day conferences
Core internal medicine lecture series
Lectures by faculty from the attending staff on both general and subspecialty internal medicine.
Medical emergency lecture series
A review series of noon lectures held the first two months of the year.
Department of medicine grand rounds
Weekly lectures by invited speakers from around the country on state-of-the-art diagnosis and management of varied disease processes.
Journal clubs
Twice monthly discussions of recent literature with an emphasis on critical appraisal skills.
Morbidity and mortality conferences
An informal opportunity for the residents to discuss cases each week with the program directors in a supportive learning environment.
Clinical-pathological conferences
Each month, a resident is presented with the clinical course, radiological findings, and relevant laboratory results for a particular patient. The resident then analyzes the case and presents his or her thinking process to the program in an educational format.
Tumor boards
A conference developed by the Hematology-Oncology department to review cases and disease management.
Critical care conferences
Residents rotating in the ICU have lectures scheduled several times a week with intensivists to review relevant topics such as EKG tutorials or ventilator management.
Vascular conference
Selected cases and journal articles in vascular surgery.
SESAP conference/journal club
Lead by the Chief Surgical Resident.