Resident Rotation Schedule
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One unique aspect of the University of Illinois Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program is the large range of both inpatient and outpatient educational opportunities.
- The Chief Residents coordinate a rotation request system by which residents can request consult services, longitudinal electives (Y-block), research half-days (Y-block), and the global medicine elective.
- The Chiefs work with residents to create their own subspeciality electives such as allergy/immunology and transplant nephrology.
- We attempt to accommodate all rotation requests, especially vacations and residents’ preferences for their future subspecialty.
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Over the course of a three-year residency, you will have the opportunity to rotate on the following (locations are in parentheses):
Inpatient Services
- Medical ICU (UIH/VA)
- Cardiology/CCU (UIH/VA)
- General Medicine Wards (UIH/VA)
- Internal Medicine Specialty Wards (UIH):
- Liver
- Oncology
- Hematology
- Sickle Cell
- Inpatient Neurology Wards/Consults (UIH)
- Emergency Medicine (UIH/VA)
Outpatient/Consult experiences
- Ambulatory Care (UIH/VA)
- Consultation/Outpatient Services (UIH/VA):
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Addiction Medicine
- Geriatrics
- GI
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Diseases
- Renal
- Palliative Care
- Pulmonary
- Interventional Pulmonary
- Rheumatology
Off-Rotation Electives:
- Clinical Decision Unit (CDU)
- Echocardiography
- Point Of Care UltraSound (POCUS) / Procedure Service
- Primary Care Elective
- Sports Medicine (VA)
- Transplant Infectious Diseases (UIH)
- Transplant Nephrology (UIH)
- Clinical Informatics (UIH)
- Reflective Practice
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Block | PGY-1 | PGY-2/PGY-3 |
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1A | UIH Wards | Admitting Night Float |
1B | VA Wards | VA ED |
2A | Oncology | Y-BLock |
2B | Oncology | MICU |
3A | Ambulatory | UIH-Wards |
3B | Pulmonary Consults |
Y-BLock Rheumatology Consults |
4A | Renal Consults | Consults |
4B | Ambulatory | Palliative Care |
5A | MICU | Y-BLock |
5B | MICU | VA Wards |
6A | VA Wards | Renal Consults |
6B | VA Wards | Y-BLock |
7A | Sickle Cell Wards | VA Wards |
7B | Vacation | MICU |
8A | CCU | Vacation |
8B | CCU | GI Consults |
9A | UIH Wards | Endocrine Consults |
9B | UIH Wards | Y-BLock |
10A | Admitting Night Float | VA ED |
10B | GI Consults | MICU |
11A | MICU | Y-BLock |
11B | MICU | Heme Wards |
12A | UIH WardS | Teaching Senior |
12B | UIH WardS | Y-BLock |
13A | Vacation | VA WArdS |
13B | Specialty Night Float | Vacation |
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PGY-1 Schedule
- 4-5 general medicine/specialty ward month blocks
- 2-3 critical care (medical intensive or cardiac) blocks
- 2-4 night float 2-week blocks
- 6-8 subspecialty consult blocks
- 4 weeks ambulatory medicine
- 2, 2-week vacations
- 1 additional week off at the end of the year before your PGY-2 year starts on July 1
4 + 2 (X+Y) Rotation Format for PGY-2/3
- Senior residents rotate on 4 weeks of “X” + 2 weeks of dedicated ambulatory “Y” time. Each “X” block is composed of two “X” rotations.
- X rotations (2 weeks): general medicine wards, subspecialty wards, ICU, subspecialty consults, night float, or vacation
- Y block (2 weeks): general medicine continuity clinic, subspecialty clinics, research, urgent care, longitudinal electives, and dedicated didactics
- 4-week vacation
PGY-2/3 Schedule
- 2-3 general medicine/specialty ward 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
- 2, 2-week vacations