Residency Program
Residency Program-Schedule
| ROTATIONS |
PGY-1
(months) |
PGY-2
(months) |
PGY-3
(months) |
General Inpatient Medicine
|
5 |
2 |
2 |
Night Float
|
0 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
| Critical Care |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Emergency Medicine |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Specialty Rotations
|
3
Cardiology
A, Infectious Dis., GI |
5
Endo, Heme-Onc,
Neuro, Nephro, Rheum, Pulm |
2
Cardio B,
plus one from previous list |
Ambulatory Medicine (2 week rotations)
|
1
Opthamology,
Dermatology |
1
Pick two from
below:
Gynecology,
Urology, Orthopedics, ENT, Psychiatry, Student Health,
Allergy, Geriatrics, |
3
Pick six from
the previous column |
| Community Medicine** |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Private Medicine** |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Being a Better Clinician - scholarly activity
|
0.5 |
0.5 |
0 |
Electives***
|
0.5
|
0 |
0.5
|
|
*
Residents interested in subspecialty fellowship training may elect
a month of research
** Choice of either Community Medicine (Jefferson City or Oak Ridge)
or Private Medicine (FIM - Turkey Creek)
*** Electives
are offered in all the medical subspecialties as well as Hospitalist
medicine, Sleep medicine, Occupational medicine, Rehabilitation
medicine, and Podiatry.
Specialty rotation months feature cardiology A, gastroenterology
and infectious diseases in the first year; endocrinology, hematology/oncology,
nephrology, neurology, rheumatology, and pulmonary in the second
or third year; cardiology B is in the third year.
Conferences
Daily conferences
are conducted at the lunch hour. In addition to the subspecialty
conferences, monthly conferences are also held in psychiatry, sports
medicine, clinical pharmacology and health policy/medical economics.
Grand Rounds are held monthly on Tuesday mornings (click on noon
conference schedule, which includes a list of upcoming Grand Rounds).
Journal Club meets once a month. Monthly resident meetings are also
an important part of the program.
Management rounds are conducted daily, and teaching rounds occur regularly. Morning report is scheduled three times a week.
Call Schedule
First
year residents are on call every fourth night while in the Medical
Intensive Care Unit (MICU); every sixth night on ward medicine,
with additional day call once every six days, and are on call every
fifth to sixth night the rest of the year. Second year residents
are on call every sixth to seventh night, and third year residents
are on call three to four times a month, except in the ICU when
they are on call every fourth night.
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