Teaching Activities
Teaching Rounds
Much learning occurs at the bedside and through informal discussion with other residents, attending physicians, consultants and through self-study. This is supplemented on the inpatient months with formal attending rounds, which consist of a minimum of six, and as much as 10 hours per week. In the intensive care unit and cardiac surveillance unit, teaching rounds may be as much as 15-20 hours per week.
Conferences
In addition to rounds, residents attend numerous didactic conferences. Below is a list of didactic conferences, or learning sessions, sponsored for residents:
- Grand Rounds—weekly
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- Morning Report—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
- Morbidity and Mortality Conference at the end of each rotation
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- Noon Conference—daily, which includes:
- Core Internal Medicine Lecture Series
- Clinical Pathologic Conference
- Tumor Board
- Subspecialty Conferences:
- Allergy
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Hematology
- Infectious Diseases
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Pulmonary
- Oncology
- Primary Care
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- Journal Club—Monthly
Daily Schedule
| 7-7:30 a.m. |
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PGY-1’s arrive and pre-round on patients |
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| 7:30-9 a.m. |
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PGY-2’s and PGY-3’s arrive and begin work rounds |
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| 9-10 a.m. |
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday:
Morning Report
Thursday:
Grand Rounds |
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| 10 a.m.-12 p.m. |
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Teaching attending rounds |
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| 12-1 p.m. |
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Noon Conference |
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| 1-3 p.m. |
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Patient care, ambulatory care, self-study |
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| 3-3:30 p.m. |
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Team makes final patient care and chart rounds |
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| 4-4:30 pm |
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Sign out rounds
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Evidence-Based Medical Curriculum
With medical knowledge ever expanding, it is increasingly difficult to remain current with the medical literature. We believe that it is important not just to know facts, but also how to access and evaluate clinical information and apply it to the care of our patients. For these reasons we incorporate evidence-based medicine throughout our curriculum—in Morning Report, Noon Conference, journal club and teaching rounds, so that it becomes part of our daily practice.
Internet access throughout the floors enables residents to have the latest information immediately available for patient care. Special access to resources such as Up-To-Date, MD Consult and medical text books on the Internet provides a powerful tool for state-of-the-art residency training.
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