Regularly Scheduled Educational Activities

Patient Rounds: Residents start the day by leading bedside teaching and work rounds with the team. Team members review the progress of each patient, incorporating patient management with opportunities for informal medical discussion. We see Dr.Kochin resident discussing with the interns and medical student patient care during rounds.

   Dr.Kochin,PGY2 with her team on Patient Rounds

Attending Rounds: Medical teams present and discuss patients during rounds with their teaching attendings. Case management is discussed within the context of pathophysiology and patient care, incorporating new developments. Dr.Raskin during attending rounds

Chairman’s Rounds: The Chairman rounds with one of the ward teams each week. House staff have the opportunity to present and discuss patients and philosophy with their Chief of Medicine.                                                                          

                                                                                                                             Dr.Raskin with his  team on Attending Rounds

Residents’ Morning Report: In a dynamic, interactive forum, house staff meet with the chief medical residents, Dr. Fleckman, Dr. Cortes, Dr. Steinberg and select faculty to discuss interesting and instructive cases. Residents present patients, concentrating on the most challenging aspects, and chief medical residents incorporate the latest medical literature.   

Resident Case Presentation and Literature Review: Residents are mentored by a senior faculty member to present and discuss one case in depth, with emphasis on differential diagnosis, clinical problem solving and expert subspecialty discussion. The format of these conferences encourages their presentation at national conferences in abstract form.

Primary Care Conference: One conference per week for all residents is dedicated to the primary care curriculum. Outside speakers from many disciplines discuss topics that are important for the delivery of care to patients in the ambulatory setting in addition to presentations by the general medical and subspecialty medicine faculty.  Residents attend additional primary care conferences at the general medical clinic during their ambulatory block rotations    

       Dr.George Ephrem, PGY2 presenting at Resident Report

Noon Conference: Following the core curriculum lecture series on managing acute medical problems given each July and August, daily noon conferences are the forum for review of major topics in the curriculum, recent advancements, discussions of ethics, morbidity and mortality, and the weekly ambulatory medicine series.

Interns' Core Curriculum: Using the Socratic method, the chief medical residents meet with the interns twice-weekly to discuss physiology, pathophysiology and treatment in a relaxed environment. Major areas of internal medicine are covered in this year-long curriculum.

Residents' Research Grand Rounds: Conferences are presented by the medical residents to the residents and senior faculty, constituting a research seminar by residents performing clinical or bench research or a comprehensive scholarly review including basic science background and future directions of a select research topic in clinical medicine that focuses on a major article.

Residents' Board Review: Residents meet weekly throughout the year with the chief medical residents and/or faculty for an in-depth review of internal medicine topics with the goal of guiding study and maximizing preparation for the American Board of Internal Medicine certification examination.   

Evidence Based Medicine Journal Club: During the PGY-2 year, residents select, present and analyze controversial and important journal articles from the recent literature in an informal presentation to their house staff colleagues. Direct one-on-one mentoring and preparation is given to each resident by a Chief Medical Resident. Although a Chief and a Program Director are always present, residents are encouraged to be presenter-teachers and are taught evidence-based concepts with an eye to giving them the ability to pass this knowledge on to others, in addition to using it in their own practice.

    Dr.Shimada presenting EBM conference

To view an example of one of our resident's EBM presentations, click here

Clinicopathologic Conference (CPC): Each month, residents present current cases of extraordinary interest, with outstanding CPC-style discussion by attendings from medicine, pathology and radiology.

Grand Rounds: Each week, Beth Israel faculty and invited speakers discuss or lecture on topics of major interest, cases from the Beth Israel service or current advances in the field.

Basic and Clinical Research Lecture Series: In the summer full time faculty present basic science background and principles of informed consent, rights of research subjects and fundamentals of clinical research. The divisions of the Department of Medicine present active areas of investigation in each of their fields and explain how house staff can get involved in a wide variety of research projects. This series is reinforced throughout the year with talks by invited speakers and with activities designed by the resident-faculty Research Committee including "Research Fairs" and poster presentations.

Subspecialty Conferences: In addition to the above conferences specifically given for the residents, each division holds weekly subspecialty conferences, frequently including prestigious outside speakers.

                                                                                              Dr.Nancy Allen, PGY2 training in the Simulation Room

Computerized Simulation Training: Using a computerized patient simulator, house staff receive instruction in emergency airway management as well as code leader, code team and rapid response team training.