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Program Curriculum

Program Curriculum

Our curriculum is based around general internal medicine months, required selectives, and other electives. Every year, each resident must do an ambulatory medicine rotation and a critical care rotation.

We use a 4 week + 2 week +2 week model of rotations, this allows for residents to generally have a required rotation, an elective rotation, and a 2 week continuity clinic rotation. There are tracks available for inpatient medicine, fellowship, and outpatient medicine starting in the PGY-2 year.

The selectives include seven core internal medicine subspecialties: nephrology, cardiology, rheumatology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, gastroenterology, and endocrinology. In addition, we require selectives in radiology, geriatrics, neurology, emergency medicine and quality improvement. A sample schedule is shown below.

Every resident is different in their career goals, so this schedule is subject to change as far as sequence of required rotations. Electives are subject to change as well, but may include fields such as sleep medicine, outpatient psychiatry, women’s health and gynecology, sports medicine, and palliative care.

PGY-1

  • Inpatient IM: 20-24 weeks
  • Ambulatory IM: 4 weeks
  • Critical Care: 4 week
  • Other Requirements: Radiology (2 weeks), Neurology (4 weeks)
  • Selectives*/Electives: 8 weeks
  • Continuity Clinic: 6-8 weeks

PGY-2

  • Inpatient IM: 12 weeks
  • Ambulatory IM: 4 weeks
  • Critical Care: 4 weeks
  • Other Requirements: Geriatrics (2 weeks), QI/Research (4 weeks), Emergency (4 weeks)
  • Selectives*/Electives: 8 weeks
  • Continuity Clinic: 12 weeks

PGY-3

  • Inpatient IM: 16 weeks
  • Ambulatory IM: 4 weeks
  • Critical Care: 4 weeks
  • Other Requirements: Board review (4 weeks)
  • Selectives*/Electives: 14 weeks
  • Continuity Clinic: 12 weeks

*Residents are required to rotate in hematology/oncology, gastroenterology, nephrology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, and rheumatology once in their training for at least two weeks. 

-Electives include women's health, psychiatry, sleep medicine, sports medicine, dermatology, outpatient pulmonology, and others. 

Call Frequency

Residents should expect to work some nights and weekends when rotating on their general IM and emergency medicine rotations.