Internal Medicine Residency Program Conferences

Intern Morning Report:

This weekly conference is a case conference held exclusively for Interns. Here, the Chairman, Program Directors and Chief Residents lead discussions geared to reviewing pathophysiology, the fundamentals of physical diagnosis and the early skills of clinical decision making.

Resident Morning Report:

This daily conference is a case conference held for all junior and senior residents. Here, the Chairman, Program Directors, and Chief Residents lead discussions focusing on advanced patient evaluation skills and advanced clinical reasoning skills. The presentations are scheduled to include cases from the inpatient wards, and the ambulatory setting on a rotating basis.

Noon Conference Series:

This daily conference is developed as a programmed yearly curriculum, focusing on the core concepts that have been selected by our curriculum committee as the critical components of the discipline of Internal Medicine.

Journal Club:

This bi-weekly conference is developed around a curriculum that emphasizes the skills necessary to analyze and implement information conveyed in the medical journals. Critical articles are selected to illustrate core topics of Evidence Based Medicine, and faculty members with special expertise in this area assist a resident in leading the discussion of the article and its contents. Statisticians and Epidemiologists review basic and advanced concepts at every session.

Clinical Case Conference:

This weekly conference is a special conference that was created by our Chief Medical Residents to allow a select group of senior residents who have distinguished themselves in their clinical performance to discuss an unknown case. Here the resident acts as as the case "discussant" to review the case and present a differential diagnosis and discussion of the case. This year we have discussed SARS, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Aplastic Anemia due to formaldehyde and Mad-Cow Disease to name just a few. The pathology seen at NJMS is impressive and exciting. (See below table for more examples of our pathology)

Grand Rounds:

This weekly conference highlights a speaker with worldwide prominence in his/her field. The guest speaker spends the day with residents, precepts morning report, and teaches at bedside rounds. Speakers the past year have included Drs. Barry Brenner and Gerald Appel among many other world experts.

Bedside Attending Rounds:

Daily rounds are conducted with the entire team. The art of history taking and physical examination is further refined and the challenges of clinical management and patient outcomes are discussed.

Chairman's Meeting:

Every month the Chairman of Medicine, Dr. Jerry Ellner, meets with all the residents to personally discuss how he can help improve the residency program.

M&M Conference

This conference is lead by the Program Director who discusses medical mistakes, patient safety issues and deaths in a case based interactive relaxed format.

Ethics Conference:

Monthly conference teaches housestaff how to deal with ethical dilemmas encompassing many issues including everything from dealing with pharmaceutical companies to treating family members.

Career Workshop:

Residents have the opportunity to discuss the private practice and fellowship application and interview process with a panel of experts in a 3 hour career workshop with the Program Director and Associate Program Directors as moderators. Learn everything from how to write a perfect C.V. to what to say on the interview.

Teaching Workshops:

The Program Director, recognized as a "Master Educator" personally teaches residents how to become creative and effective teachers of students and interns.

Examples of the unique pathology seen daily in the
NJMS Internal Medicine Residency Training Program: