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Internal Medicine Residency Program Curriculum
Our
Internal Medicine Residency Program is focused on education.
Our goal is to develop clinically competent, Board Certified
Internists. The result of this is a foundation from which
graduates can pursue a variety of career paths including primary
care practice, subspecialty training, hospitalist careers
or a career in academics.
There
are many aspects of our program that allows us to provide
a residency that has an emphasis on education, rather than
service.
- A
cap on the number of admissions
per team and per resident
- An
academic
hospitalist group at Hackensack University Medical
Center and at University Hospital that accepts admissions
and transfers to insure that only the best teaching cases
are followed by the residents
- A
program wide night float system allows no overnight calls
for floor rotations at University Hospital, Hackensack University
Hospital, or the VA.
- While
on night float duties, residents have attending supervision
and are excused from weekly clinic and daytime responsibilities.
- A
faculty
run HIV service at University Hospital takes
direct admits and transfers, allowing the housestaff to
have an educational experience not overwhelmed by HIV disease.
- Our
teams are structured in a way that allows for an efficient
approach to managing patients and allows housestaff to have
a large forum for case discussion. Each team has one senior
resident and 2-3 interns. In addition, to this, the team
also has third year medical students and may have a 4th
year student as an Acting Intern.
- IV
teams phlebotomists, and transport teams keep scut
work to a minimum.
- Resident
and interns are off an average of 1 every 7 days, including
days off during the week.
- There
is little or no call
during ambulatory/elective rotations
- All
ICU teams go home post-call days by 1:00 p.m.
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