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Resident Rotation Schedule

Resident Rotation Schedule

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 (Y-block and intern ambulatory rotation) and the global medicine elective (when available).
  • 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.

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
    • Electrophysiology

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

Typical Resident Schedule

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Below is a representative schedule spanning three years:

Typical Resident Schedule

 

PGY-1 Schedule

  • Rotation Format: Flex-X
    • Structure: Modified 6+2 format
    • +2 rotations: ambulatory medicine, consults, or vacation
  • Categorical Track
    • General Medicine Wards: 10-14 weeks
      • 4-8 weeks on VA team
      • 6-8 weeks on UIH team
    • Specialty Wards: 8 weeks
      • 2 weeks (or 1 sub-rotation) on sickle, hematology, oncology, liver
    • Critical Care: 12 weeks
      • 4 weeks UIH MICU
      • 4 weeks on VA MICU
      • 4 weeks on CCU
    • Ambulatory Medicine: 6 weeks
      • Dedicated primary care curriculum
      • Subspecialty/elective clinics available
    • Subspecialty Consults: 6-8 weeks
    • Night Float: 2-4 weeks
    • Vacation: 4 weeks (two 2-week blocks)
    • Year-end break: 1 week off
    • Continuity Clinic
      • weekly during consults/ambulatory rotations
      • Approximately every other week during wards (general medicine, hematology, sickle cell)
      • No clinic: night float, crtical care, oncology, or liver wards
  • Preliminary Track
    • General Medicine Wards: 10-16 weeks
    • Specialty Wards: 6-8 weeks
      • 2 weeks on sickle, hematology, oncology, liver
      • customization possible upon request
    • Critical Care: 4-8 weeks
      • 4 weeks UIH MICU and/or VA MICU
    • Ambulatory Medicine: 2-4 weeks
    • Subspecialty Consults: 8-10 weeks
      • May include up to 2 weeks in non-IM rotations (dermatology, radiation oncology, EM, anesthesia)
    • Night Float: 2-4 weeks
    • Vacation: 4 weeks (two 2-week blocks)
    • Year-end break: 1 week off

PGY-2/PGY-3 Schedule

  • Rotation Format: 4+2 (X+Y)
    • X block (4 weeks = two 2-week rotations):
      • General Medicine wards
      • Subspecialty wards
      • Critical care
      • Subspecialty consults
      • Night float
      • Vacation
    • Y block (2 weeks):
      • Continuity clinic (general medicine)
      • Subspecialty clinics
      • Research,
      • Administrative time
      • Urgent care
      • Longitudinal electives
      • Didactics

Categorical Schedule

  • General Medicine/Specialty Wards: 8-12 weeks
  • Critical Care (MICU or CCU): 6-8 weeks
  • Y rotations: 16 weeks (8 sub-blocks, 2 weeks each)
  • Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
  • Night Float: 4-6 weeks
  • Subspecialty Consults: 8-10 weeks
  • Vacation: 4 weeks (two, 2-week blocks)

Sample Y-Block (PGY-2/PGY-3)

Sample Y-Block (PGY-2/PGY-3)

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