Resident Rotation Schedule
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A unique aspect of the University of Illinois at Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program is the wide range of both inpatient and outpatient educational opportunities.
- The Chief Residents coordinate schedules for each individual resident, including inpatient primary services, consult services, longitudinal outpatient electives (Y-block), research half-days (Y-block), subspecialty outpatient clinics (intern ambulatory rotation) and the global medicine elective.
- Residents interested in more specialized electives, such as allergy/immunology, transplant nephrology, and anesthesia, can have the opportunity to rotate through these electives.
- We attempt to accommodate all rotation requests, especially vacations and residents’ preferences for their future subspecialty.
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Over the course of your three-year residency, you will to rotate on the following (locations are in parentheses):
Inpatient Services
- Medical ICU/MICU (UIH/VA)
- Cardiology/CCU (UIH/VA)
- General Medicine Wards (UIH/VA)
- Internal Medicine Specialty Wards (UIH):
- Liver
- Oncology
- Hematology
- Sickle Cell
- Emergency Medicine (UIH/VA)
Outpatient/Consult experiences
- Ambulatory Care (UIH/VA)
- Consultation/Outpatient Services (UIH/VA):
- Addiction Medicine
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Geriatrics
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Diseases
- Nephrology
- Palliative Care
- Pulmonary
- Interventional Pulmonary
- Point Of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) / Procedure Service
- Rheumatology
Off-Rotation Electives:
- Clinical Decision Unit (CDU)
- Clinical Informatics (UIH)
- Echocardiography
- Genetics
- Inpatient Neurology Wards/Consults (UIH)
- Primary Care Elective
- Sports Medicine (VA)
- Transplant Infectious Diseases (UIH)
- Transplant Nephrology (UIH)
- Reflective Practice
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PGY-1 Schedule
- Flex-X: modified 6+2 with the +2 rotations being ambulatory medicine, consults, or vacation time
- Categorical
- 10-14 weeks on general medicine wards (4 weeks on VA team, 2-4 weeks on UIH team)
- 8 weeks on specialty wards (2 weeks or 1 sub rotation each on all services – sickle, hematology, oncology, liver)
- 12 weeks on critical care (4 weeks on UIH MICU, 4 weeks on VA MICU, 4 weeks on CCU)
- 6 weeks ambulatory medicine with dedicated primary care curriculum and opportunities to rotate in subspecialty/elective clinics
- 4-8 weeks subspecialty consult rotations
- 2-4 weeks night float
- 4 weeks vacation (two 2wk sub rotations)
- 1 week off at the end of the year
- 1 continuity clinic (VA or UIH), occurring weekly during consults/ambu and approximately every other week during general medicine wards (UIH/VA), hematology wards, and sickle cell wards. No clinic on night float, crtical care rotations, oncology wards, or liver wards.
- Preliminary
- 10-16 weeks on general medicine wards
- 6-8 weeks on specialty wards (2 weeks on each service, options of sickle, hematology, oncology, liver; can be customized by request)
- 4-8 weeks of critical care (4 weeks on UIH MICU and/or VA MICU)
- 2-4 weeks on ambulatory medicine
- 10-14 weeks of subspecialty consults, including opportunity to rotate in any non-IM rotation x2 weeks, including dermatology, radiation oncology, emergency medicine, and anesthesia
- 4 weeks of night float
- 4 weeks vacation (two 2wk sub rotations)
- 1 week off at the end of the year
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, critical care, 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
- 8-12 weeks of general medicine/specialty wards months
- 6-8 weeks of critical care (Medical Intensive or Cardiac Intensive Care)
- 16 weeks of Y rotations (8 subblocks, 2 weeks each)
- 4-8 weeks of ER rotations
- 4-8 weeks of night float rotations
- 8-10 weeks of subspecialty consult rotations
- 4 weeks of vacation (2 subblocks, 2 weeks each)
Sample Y-Block (PGY-2/PGY-3)
