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Medicine Wards (aka Adult Inpatient Medicine Service or 'AIMS') -- 3 months

• 5 teams, each with 1 resident, 2 interns, usually 1 senior medical student; one team each month is composed of family medicine residents, the other 4 are internal medicine residents
• 1 team per staff attending
• night-float, no 30 hour call
• census usually 5-8 patients per intern
• critically ill patients admitted and cared for by ICU team, not the ward teams
• 'team rounds' in am; including focused teaching time, bedside rounds
• Morning report each morning - case presentations

Inpatient Pediatrics -- 1 month

• New pediatric hospital opened January 2003
• one peds team per month, composed of 2-4 interns
• call every fifth night
• census usually 2-4 patients per intern, depending on season
• daily morning reports with teaching faculty
• weekly didactic

Outpatient Pediatrics -- 1 month

• Work alongside pediatric residents and faculty
• gain valuabe one-on-one experience with faculty who have dedicated clinic times for asthma, developmentally challenged children & adolescents
• get good experience with telephone triage by answering "Mom-calls", averaging every 6th day

 

Obstetrics -- 2 months

• 6 calls per month, timing somewhat flexible; OB resident also on call with FP intern
• average intern does approx. 12-18 deliveries during first month, more during second month
• St. Vincent labor room does more deliveries per year than any other hospital in the state
• 5 OB residents per year; OB resident & FP 2nd year resident in hospital each night, committed to supervision and teaching of FP residents
• several half-days per week in OB prenatal clinic
• interns attend all OB conferences and lectures, including day per week of dedicated faculty teaching

Intensive Care Unit -- 2 months

• day shift (0700-1800) x 20 days each month; team consists of 2 residents and 4-5 interns
• night shift (1800-0700) x 10 days each month; team consists of 1 resident and 2-3 interns
• four scheduled days off, plus additional half-days arranged with other interns
• typical census 3-6 patients per intern; each patient staffed with an intensivist
• ICU team is the code team for the hospital

Newborn -- 1 month

• 2-weeks in NICU & normal newborn nursery
• largest NICU in Indiana.
• work with neonatologists
• focus on newborn resuscitation
• 2 weeks in continuing care nursery, a step-down nursery for infants with common medical issues who need additional care

Ambulatory Medicine -- 1 month

• taken within first 4 months of internship
• focus on Family Medicine Clinic
• orient to Electronic Medical Record and multiple services provided in Primary Care Center

Cardiology -- 1 month

• work on a team with cardiologist managing common cardiac issues
• team consists of 1-2 interns, cardiology fellow, cardiology staff, senior medical students
• average census 4-7 patients per intern
• high sought after EKG lectures 3-4 days per week
• didactics 2-3 times per week
• experience with echocardiography, cadiac catheterization, stress testing
• short call every 5th night until 9:00pm

OB nights -- 4-6 weeks

• 1800-0700 each weekday, weekends off (weekends are covered by the remainder of the 2nd year class at frequency of 1-2 per month)
• duties include triage and management of all FP clinic and private FP patients in labor/delivery room, communicating status reports to FP attending by phone
• opportunity to do or participate in many deliveries
• no daytime responsibilities except clinic on Mondays

Adult Medicine Wards (AIMS) team leader -- 4-6 weeks

• lead one of the five medicine ward teams (see above)
• supervise interns and student, seeing patients and reviewing care
• night float system

Outpatient Pediatrics -- 1 month

• work alongside pediatricians and pediactric residents
• home call every 5th night for "Mom Calls"

Surgery

• 2 months of General Surgery, divided into two 1-month blocks
• take AIMS call every fifth night for 4-6 weeks

Electives

• 1-2 weekend OB/AIMS calls per month

Family Medicine Clinic Chief -- 6 weeks

• Supervises transitional and preliminary residents & medical students on clinic rotations
• Triage and evaluate walk in patients
• Perform procedures such as colpo, treadmills, in the primary care center
• Complete a project to benefit the clinic ex. patient education initiative

Electives

• Complete remainder of required electives
• Many other elective opportunities are available
• International and out-of-state rotations
• Individual rotations can be arranged based on special interest
• There is no call during the third year

What moonlighting opportunities are available?

• For interns, many opportunities to take extra call within hospital for pay (ER, cardiology, medicine wards, ICU, peds, etc.)
• Starting second year with a permanent license, many other moonlighting opportunities available with increased pay (private offices, sports medicine, sports event physician, etc.)

How are the OB patients and Deliveries Handled?

• FP residents follow and deliver their own OB patients, round on post-partum patients in hospital, and see infants for subsequent well-child visits
• FP intern or resident always available in labor/delivery room to triage patients and manage those in labor, updating resident by phone; resident comes into labor room at appropriate time(s) to help manage and then deliver patient.
• Residents arrange to cover one another's OB patients during vacations, weekends out of town, moonlighting, etc.