General and specialty
Internal Medicine faculty with regular participation by Department
of Pathology residents and/or faculty
Schedule: Third Tuesday of each month at 8:00 AM, one hour maximum
Links to Curricular Area: Cases selected may originate from
any Internal Medicine based rotation that has resident participation.
Residents should notify the Chief Resident when a death has occurred
in a case for which the resident feels there is sufficient interest
and potential educational value and a post-mortem examination
has been ordered. Cases selected will highlight specific disease
processes that tend to emphasize not only the most common clinical
entities encountered by residents in training but allow for the
presentation of those that occur less frequently.
A.
Chief Resident assigns the presenting resident to a specific
time slot within two months after completion of the rotation
on which the death occurred.
B. Cases selected are reviewed by the presenting resident with
the M&M Faculty Preceptor to determine the merits of the
case as a learning tool.
Primary Goals: To promote a better understanding of the relationship
between clinical data and the pathophysiology of the disease process
in an environment that encourages resident participation. The
process of integration and interpretation of clinical information
will be examined in the presence of autopsy data when available.
Residents and/or faculty from the Department of Pathology will
be encouraged to participate when post-mortem data is available
to review in order to correlate the pathology data with the pre-mortem
clinical data.
Resources: Residents are free to use any form of hard copy or
electronic reference material in their presentation. The presenting
resident may, and is encouraged, to invite a faculty member with
expertise in the topic of interest to participate in the discussion.
However, it will remain the resident’s role to present the
formal lecture on the main topic of the case. The invited faculty
member’s role is to be a participant in the discussion and
possibly provide additional insight into the case, not to give
the lecture. It is the presenting resident’s responsibility
to invite the guest faculty to be present.
Method of Resident Evaluation: Residents will be evaluated at
the completion of their presentation by both the faculty and resident
components of the audience. Residents will be evaluated on the
basis of their effectiveness in integrating the clinical information,
ability to present the clinical information in an articulate and
cohesive manner, use of available resources, and ability to conduct
the conference in a manner that fosters audience education.
Method of Venue Evaluation: Residents will be surveyed annually
regarding the M & M conference on an anonymous basis. They
will be asked to comment on the format, the resource and audiovisual
equipment available, and the evaluation process.
Feedback: The faculty preceptor will provide oral feedback to
the resident after the conference. Any areas of concern will be
addressed in writing and forwarded to the Program Director.
Competencies covered: Practice Based
Learning, Systems Based Practice, Professionalism, Medical Knowledge,
Patient Care
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine Department of Medicine
