Resident Rotation Schedule
Resident Rotation Schedule Heading link
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
Typical Resident Schedule Heading link
| Block | PGY-1 | PGY-2/PGY-3 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 (Flex-X)
- 8 weeks General Medicine (4 weeks UIH and 4 weeks JBVA)
- 8 weeks Specialty Wards
- 2 weeks Liver
- 2 weeks Oncology
- 2 weeks Hematology
- 2 weeks Sickle Cell
- 12 weeks Critical Care
- 8 weeks MICU (4 weeks UIH and 4 weeks JBVA)
- 4 week CCU
- 2 weeks Overnight Cross Cover
- 6 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
Flex-X (modified 6+2 with the +2 rotations being ambulatory medicine, consults, or vacation time)
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
- 6 weeks General Medicine
- 2 weeks UIH
- 2 weeks JBVA
- 2 weeks Overnight Admitting
- 4 weeks Specialty Wards
- 2, 2-week blocks of Liver, Oncology, Hematology, or Sickle Cell
- 6 weeks Critical Care
- 2 weeks MICU JBVA
- 2 weeks CCU
- 2 weeks CCU Ectopic
- 8 Y blocks (2 weeks each)
- 2-4 weeks ED JBVA
- ~8 weeks Subspecialty Consults
- 2, 2-week vacations
