Teaching Rounds and Conferences

Our educational curriculum is delivered in a variety of modalities including daily lectures, bedside attending rounds, chairman rounds and critical care rounds.  

Turnover Rounds
7:00 to 7:30am
Night teams discuss the admissions and patient care problems that occurred during the previous night.

Grand Rounds
8:00 to 9:30am, every Thursday
These weekly lectures include topics regarding new advances in different subspecialties of medicine and clinical cases with answers to evidence-based medicine questions (EBM) that were generated in a previous EBM conference.

ICU/CCU Attending Rounds
7:45 to 9:30am
The critical care team rounds on patients in the ICU from 7:45 to 8:45am, then CCU from 8:45 to 9:30am. Wednesday CCU rounds are an EKG workshop where EKG’s are reviewed with a cardiologist.

Lectures               
8:00 to 9:00am, Monday through Wednesday
Our curriculum presents the wide spectrum of internal medicine topics covered in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying exam.

Journal Club
8:30 to 9:30am, twice a month
Two residents discuss two relevant Journal Club articles either from the New England Journal of Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine or other significant journal. The method, results, statistics and conclusion are discussed to teach the residents how to interpret these articles and how to utilize them in their clinical practice.

Narrative Medicine
8:30 to 9:30am, once a month
The institutional coordinator of humanities education meets with all residents and many faculty to discuss selected evocative literary pieces relevant to medicine. Residents also participate in narrative writing exercises to enhance their humanistic perspectives. Resident writing is incorporated into the individual resident's portfolio; and occasionally pieces may merit publication in various online forums.

Palliative Care Conference
8:30 to 9:30am, once a month
The PGY II assigned to geriatrics and palliative care works with supervising faculty to present cases of educational interest from a palliative perspective. Discussion focuses on evidence-based approaches to prognostication and to the risk/benefit profiles of various treatments, and on principals of bioethics and end of life care. 

Floor Attending Rounds          
10:00 to 11:30am, three to five days a week
Each floor team meets with an internal medicine preceptor to discuss and examine patients, write orders and plan their management. Each medicine floor rotation includes a wide variety of pathology. Bedside teaching is emphasized.

Evidence-based Conference
9:30 to 10:30am, twice a month
A case is discussed and evidence-based questions are generated by the group. The resident selects the three or four most interesting questions to investigate and present at a subsequent Grand Rounds.

Ambulatory Care Conference
9:30 to 10:30am, once a month
An ambulatory topic is discussed by one of our faculty members.

Research Club/Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement
9:30 to 10:30am, once a month
One or two of the residents present their research projects in order to get constructive feedback from the other residents and faculty. This helps to make the most effective research project. 

Noon Report         
Noon daily
Residents and faculty discuss an admission in detail with emphasis on history and physical exam, diagnostic data, presentation skills, and assessment and plan.  

Morbidity and Mortality Conference
Noon to 1:00pm, once a month
During this multidisciplinary conference, a PGY II resident presents a case which reveals a potential systems error, near miss or quality/patient safety concern.  The conference is run by the program director with other faculty, including staff from quality improvement, risk management, nursing and pharmacy.

Board Review
Noon to 1:00pm, twice a month
Residents review ABIM board review material, usually from the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP), four times a month; an attending reviews the material twice a month and administers a quiz to assess to residents' knowledge.