Internal Medicine Residency

Curriculum

The 4+2 Curriculum Model

Beginning in July 2013, our residency program moved to a “4+2” curriculum model. In this model, residents have their inpatient and outpatient rotations completely separated. Residents alternate between a 4-week block of inpatient care a 2-week block of clinic, consults, or elective with weekends off.

Intern Rotations

  • Inpatient General Medicine- 3 months
  • Subspecialty Inpatient Medicine (Hematology-Oncology and Cardiology)- 2 months
  • Ambulatory Care- 3 months
  • Medical ICU- 4-6 weeks
  • Cardiac Intensive Care- 2-4 weeks
  • Consults- 4-6 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine- 2 weeks
  • Vacation- 4 weeks

Senior Rotations

  • Inpatient General Medicine- 2 months
  • Subspecialty Inpatient Medicine (Hematology-Oncology and Cardiology)- 2 months
  • Ambulatory Care- 3 months
  • Medical ICU- 4-6 weeks
  • Cardiac Intensive Care- 2-4 weeks
  • Consults- 4-6 weeks
  • Emergency Medicine- 0-2 weeks
  • Vacation- 4 weeks
  • Elective- 4-6 weeks

Ambulatory Medicine Highlights

  • +2 structure: every 4 weeks of inpatient service are followed by 2 weeks of dedicated ambulatory time
  • Residents are the primary care physician for your own panel of patients, not following an attending panel
  • Panel of 30-50 patients as a PGY-1, 100-120 as a PGY-2 or 3
  • On-site primary care clinic and urgent care clinic experience at UCM main campus in Hyde Park
  • Dedicated RN and LPN to triage and respond to patient calls/messages
  • Resident partner coverage while on inpatient and vacation
  • Multi-year subspecialty clinic for career exploration/mentorship
  • 2-4 half days/week protected for administrative tasks
  • Dedicated primary care faculty mentor provides longitudinal teaching relationship throughout residency 
  • Weekends off with your firm/ambulatory social events
  • LUCENT track for expanded primary care experience (link out to https://lucent.uchicago.edu)
  • Multi-year ambulatory medicine educational series protected from clinic time
  • ~10% of UCM residents go into primary care over the last 3 years

Hands-On Learning

Simulation Center

Simulation-based training with state-of-the-art equipment to improve clinical skills, with specific sessions dedicated to ACLS, central lines, and mechanical ventilation.

Procedural Training

Abundant opportunities to develop skills in bedside procedures, including central lines, arterial lines, paracenteses, thoracenteses, and lumbar punctures.

Bedside Ultrasound

Focused curriculum on bedside cardiac and lung ultrasound, with easy access to IM-specific ultrasound machines to integrate into patient care.

Conferences

We have a variety of daily lunch-time conferences to provide interesting and engaging educational opportunities and fit all learning styles. Lunch is provided daily at conference! 

    • Resident-Led Case-Based Morning Report
    • Clinicopathologic Conference
    • Bite-Sized Teaching
    • Fresh Case Friday
    • Traditional Lectures
    • Grand Rounds
    • Board Review
    • Civil Discourse Events
    • Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (focus on quality improvement)

Outside of daily conference, we have additional dedicated educational time in ambulatory lectures, academic half days, and rotation-based afternoon teaching sessions.

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