Department of Medicine

Top 10 Features

  1. Dedicated intern learning group where interns work with a faculty mentor to master basic interpretive skills and case based learning.

  2. Hospitalist attendings at University Hospital provide 24-hour a day, 7 days a week supervision to insure outstanding clinical teaching and procedural supervision.

  3. Dedicated night float team staffed by attendings at University Hospital and VA hospital.

  4. Highly successful leadership retreat at the end of internship.

  5. Teaching each week includes formal didactic sessions, attending rounds, morning report, intern learning groups, board review, morbidity and mortality conferences and jeopardy.

  6. Evidence-based medicine and medical informatics taught by world leaders in the field and re-enforced during monthly journal club.

  7. 24-hour computer access at all clinical & hospital sites. Off-site access to all electronic medical records and full remote access to all electronic journals.

  8. New electives increase training opportunities to fulfill individual resident educational needs.

  9. Training occurs at two hospital settings-increasing patient diversity but not over-burdening housestaff with multiple systems to learn.

  10. Basic Science and Clinical research opportunities in all fields of medicine.