Regularly Scheduled Educational Activities
PHOTO: Dr. Anna Kochin, on work roundsPatient 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.
PHOTO: Dr. Alan Dubrow, renal attending in teaching rounds with his resident, Ruby Jain, PGY-2, Jason Extein, PGY-1 and a student.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.
Chairman’s Rounds
The Chairman, Dr. Bodenheimer, rounds with one of the ward teams each week. House staff have the opportunity to present a case and discuss patient care with the Chairman of Medicine.
Residents’ Morning Report
In a dynamic, interactive forum, house staff meet with the chief medical residents, Dr. Steinberg, Dr. Burger, Dr. Fleckman, and Dr. Cortes, along with other faculty to discuss interesting and instructive cases. Residents present patients, and the faculty and chief residents incorporate the latest medical literature.
Dr. Fahad Khan, class of 2011, accepted to gastroenterology fellowship in Albuquerque, NM, July, 2012.
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 during their ambulatory block rotations.
Photo: House staff in our noon conference lecture room Noon Conference
Daily noon conferences are the forum for the review of major topics in the curriculum, recent advancements, discussions of ethics, morbidity and mortality, and the weekly ambulatory medicine series. The months of July and August are dedicated to the review of the core curriculum and on the management of acute medical problems.
Interns' Core Curriculum
Using the Socratic method, the chief medical residents meet with the interns weekly to discuss physiology, pathophysiology and treatment in a relaxed environment. Major areas of internal medicine are covered in this year-long curriculum.
Photo: Simon Gringut, PGY-2 presenting Journal ClubResidents' Journal Club/Grand Rounds
A conference is presented by each second-year resident, that focuses on a particular topic in clinical medicine or research. The conference provides a scholarly review of the topic, including basic science background, and proposes future directions of that particular topic.
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 Presentation
During the PGY-2/PGY-3 year, residents select, present and analyze 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 Resident. Although a Chief and a Program Director are always present, residents are encouraged to be presenter-teachers and are taught evidence-based concepts that can be imparted to others, and incorporated into their own practice of medicine.
Clinicopathologic Conference (CPC)During a medicine grand rounds forum, house staff, medical students, and faculty 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 distinguished invited speakers discuss topics of major interest and current advances in the field of medicine.
The Simulation Center
Above: Richard Lee, PGY1, using the ultrasound machine to view on neck lines.
Basic and Clinical Research Lecture Series
In the months of July and August, each division within the department of medicine presents their respective active areas of investigation and introduces how the house staff can get involved in a wide variety of research projects. This series is reinforced throughout the year by talks from the house staff on current research projects, and other activities coordinated by the Beth Israel Research Society and the Office of Graduate Medical Education, including "Research Fairs" and poster presentations.
Subspecialty Conferences
In addition to the above conferences, each division holds weekly subspecialty conferences, frequently including prestigious outside speakers.
The Simulation Center
Above: Chief Yuichi Shimada teaching Rachel Bier, PGY2 how to place a central veinous line.
Above: Richard Lee, PGY1, using the ultrasound machine to view on neck lines.
Computerized Simulation Training
Using a recently renovated and updated state-of-the-art simulation center, house staff receive training in emergency airway management, and instruction on serving as the leaders of both code and rapid response teams. Recently, new simulation models have been added that train residents in both central line venous access and knee arthrocentesis.
Above: Sim Man prior to surgery.