IM Residency Program Overview
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Program Structure
- 113 residents in the Categorical and Preliminary Programs.
- 17 Medicine/Pediatrics residents
- 15 Internal Medicine / Emergency Medicine residents
- Total of 145 trainees
X+Y format
- 4+2 system for PGY 2/3 residents
- 4 Weeks Or inpatient or consult rotations followed by 2 weeks of a Y-block
- Continuity clinics at UH and the Jesse Brown VA
- Golden weekends on the Y-block
Procedures and Skills Training
- Point Of Care Ultrasound: rotation providing clinical training in bedside ultrasound
- 5 Tracks: Academic Internal Medicine, Global Health, Medical Education, Innovation in Internal Medicine, Leaders for local Changes
- How to be a Resident teacher rotation
- Unique fellowship opportunities after residency: Ultrasound Fellowship & Clinical Leaders and Academic Scholars (CLASS) Fellowship
- Simulation Training
Research and Education
- Protected educational times weekdays from 12:00pm-1:00pm
- Intern Bootcamp and intern morning reports
- UIH Afternoon and VA morning reports
- Project and Investigative Research (PAIR) online database
- Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (SIARR) Program (R38 Grant)
- Educational Stipend: Residents receive a monthly education stipend and funding to attend conferences.
- American College of Physicians: The program pays for membership which allows additional educational opportunities as well as discounts on educational materials.
- ROAAP fund to offset open-access publishing fees educational experiences
- Unique rotations like reflective practice and narrative medicine
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Within our family: currently 34% of our residents are doctors that are underrepresented in medicine.
- Serving the underserved: we are passionate and dedicated to providing health and equity to our community
- Department of Medicine Inclusion Counsel (DOMIC)
- Bias Reduction in Internal Medicine (BRIM)
- Women Trainees Interest Group (WTIG)
- Didactics on LGBTQIA+ inclusive care
Beyond Residency
- Over the last decade, 96% of graduates seeking a fellowship attain it.
- 46% of residents match at the first choice on their match list
- 30% of our graduates entered careers in general internal medicine
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Clinical Schedule
- Intern year follows a traditional schedule divided into 13 blocks further divided into, week sub-blocks labeled A & B
PGY-1 Schedule
- 4-5 general medicine/specialty ward month blocks
- 6-8 subspecialty consult blocks.
- 2-3 critical care (Medical Intensive or Cardiac) blocks
- 2–4-night float 2-weeks block
- 4-week ambulatory medicine
- 1 additional week off at the end of the year before the start of your PGY-2 year
- 4-weeK Vacation
PGY-2+3 Schedule X+Y Rotation Format
- Senior residents rotate on 4 weeks of “X” + 2 weeks of dedicated ambulatory “Y” time. Each “X” block comprised of two “X” rotations.
- X rotations (2-weeks): general medicine wards, subspecialty wards, ICU, subspecialty consults, night float, or vacation
- Y blocks (2 weeks): general medicine continuity clinic, subspecialty clinic, research, urgent care, longitudinal electives and dedicated didactics.
- 4-week Vacation
PGY-2/3 Schedule
- 2-3 general medicine/specialty wards months
- 6-8 Critical Care (Medical Intensive or Cardiac) weeks
- 8 Y blocks (2 weeks each)
- 4-6 ER weeks
- 2–4-night float weeks
- 8- 12 subspecialty consult weeks
- 4-week of vacation