Academic Environment/Didactics

Daily bedside attending rounds are conducted with the entire team, where the art of history-taking and physical exam skills, clinical reasoning are refined, as well as the management of each patient case-by-case.

Weekdays between noon and 12:45 p.m. This daily conference is developed as a programmed yearly curriculum, focusing on the core concepts that have been selected by the Curriculum Committee as the critical components of the discipline of internal medicine. Conferences are presented by internists and subspecialty faculty. Noon Conference PowerPoint presentations are posted on New Innovations™ for residents to review as needed throughout training.

A series of 30-minute sessions held in the beginning of the academic year from 12:45 to 1:15 p.m. to address the most practical issues that interns have when beginning residency. Topics are selected by interns and senior residents. Senior residents present information in an informal and interactive format. Some topics include “Expectations of Intern’s Role”, “Effective Communication with Team Members,” “Electrolyte replacement”, “RRT/Code Blue,” etc.

Tuesdays through Thursdays from 12:45 to 1:15 p.m. These are attending/senior resident-led sessions including case analysis, relevant topic discussions, and workshops.

Senior internal medicine residents present an interesting case or topic to the fellow residents and faculty once a month during the 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. sessions.

These are high quality, resident-run conferences held on Friday mornings. Residents present a case and then deliver a Grand Rounds-style lecture on the topic the case highlights. These conferences are approved for Category 1 CME credit for the participants.

A monthly conference during which the residents select and critically appraise articles published in major medical journals, the practical application of statistical methods, and presentation skills. This practice emphasizes the skills necessary to analyze and implement information conveyed in medical journals. Timely and clinically relevant articles are selected to illustrate core topics of evidence based medicine.

Patient care scenarios in which the outcome was unexpected are discussed in a multidisciplinary team setting. It is a self-reflection exercise to identify opportunities to improve patient care quality and safety and identify issues related to the systems of care.

With a mix of both external and local experts, our Grand Rounds cover a variety of topics in both general internal medicine as well as subspecialties.