Internal Medicine
Educational Conferences
All residents, except those on night float and away electives, attend two educational conferences each weekday between 11:45 and 1:30, with a lunch break in between. This time is considered protected and dedicated learning time.
Resident Conference [11:45 – 12:15]
During resident conferences, each resident teaches their colleagues while precepted by an attending. Every month has a theme (e.g. July is Cardiology themed, August is Pulmonary themed, etc.), where we try to discuss relevant topics. Residents select their own lecture dates.
Types of resident conferences include the following:
- Clinical Case Mondays: Attendings and Ward Teams present a few cases with learning points.
- Intern Report Tuesdays: Tuesdays are reserved for PGY1 and Medical Student teaching, where interns present cases with a special focus on obtaining a history, performing a physical exam, and making clinical reasoning decisions.
- Program Wednesdays:
- Journal Clubs
- Guidelines Reviews
- Morbidity and Mortality
- Research meetings
- Resident Report: PGY2 and PGY3s are preassigned lecture topics of clinical relevance to present.
- Joint Conference Fridays: These lectures are also attended by family medicine, pharmacy, and dental residents.
- Physical Examination Curriculum
- Financial Literacy
- Emergency Medicine Lectures
- Humanism in Medicine
- Radiology Lectures
- Quality and Improvement
Noon "Subspecialty Conferences" [12:30 – 1:30]
During the afternoon timeslot, a faculty subspecialist will present a lecture or workshop related to their field. The subspecialty curriculum is reviewed yearly to ensure topics are clinically relevant, up to date, and relevant to the ABIM. The speakers are assigned at the beginning of the year by the Subspecialty Educational Coordinator.
Each month there will be at least one topic given by specialists in the fields of:
- Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Infectious Diseases
- Gastroenterology & Advanced Gastroenterology
- Hematology & Oncology
- Endocrinology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Emergency Medicine
- Geriatrics
- Rheumatology
- Addiction Medicine
- Outpatient Private Practice
Procedures Curriculum
Our procedures curriculum is updated yearly. Utilizing experts, the simulation lab, and models - workshops are arranged (usually at monthly intervals) to help develop residents' skills in common medical procedures, including suturing, central line placement, arthrocentesis, dialysis catheter placement, and endotracheal intubations.
Medical Grand Rounds
Through Hackensack Meridian Health, Mountainside hosts Medical Grand Rounds on Wednesday afternoons beginning in September. All MGR are CME eligible talks given by respected experts in the fields.
Dedicated Ambulatory Didactics
During ambulatory block, Wednesdays after 1:30 are set aside for didactics. Utilizing the Yale and the Johns Hopkins curriculum, preassigned topics pertinent to outpatient medicine are reviewed by Faculty with the residents via specially designed PBL cases. The second week is dedicated to an open table discussion where each clinic resident discusses a teaching point they learned within the block.
Board Prep
Each resident is provided with a MKSAP subscription. For each month's subspecialty theme, residents are expected to complete a percentage of relevant MKSAP questions (Interns 30%; PGY2s 50%, and PGY3s 100%). Faculty mentors work with each resident to guide their study efforts. Each month, a special faculty-led board review session is held to help drive home teaching points and test taking skills. The month also concludes with a test on the month's content. In PGY3 year, a special allotment of funds is available for residents who choose to pursue a Board Prep Review Course.