Academic Offerings
Didactics
The Internal Medicine Residency Program provides a wide range of academic
programs to supplement trainees' diverse clinical training experiences.
Didactic schedule primarily revolves around the Academic Half Day (AHD)
and will be developed yearly to be repeated each year, reinforcing values
and providing opportunities for residents to revisit the lessons.
Academic Half day
The program will hold a weekly half-day didactic block on Wednesday afternoons.
This will be a protected time for resident’s education. Academic
Half-day includes EKG and radiology series, Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment
Program® (MKSAP) based board review, faculty-driven lectures, institutional
requirements, wellness and group-based activities, simulation sessions,
and journal clubs. This didactic series curriculum includes general and
subspecialty medicine topics, wellness and leadership activities, and
non-clinical topics like coding and billing, pharmacy services, clinical
documentation, ethics updates, communication, and more.
Thursday Grand Rounds
The Department of Medicine streams grand rounds on Thursday mornings from
Montefiore university Hospital. Medicine grand rounds features internal,
local and national experts discussing cutting-edge clinical and basic
science research and updates in clinical practice.
Morning Reports
Morning reports are built into inpatient services and are moderated by
the hospitalist faculty. Morning reports will be held on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Hopkins Ambulatory medicine curriculum: A weekly ambulatory lecture series
is designed to cover the Hopkin’s ambulatory curriculum during academic
half days built in to ambulatory +2 week block.