All residents, except those on night float and away electives, attend two educational conferences each weekday, typically at 11:45 and 12:45, with a lunch break in between.

This time is considered dedicated learning time - which is announced to nursing on the floors to minimize interruptions.

Resident Conferences [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 usually select their own lecture dates.

Types of resident conferences include the following:

1. Clinical Case Mondays: All residents are pre-assigned 2-3 Mondays, where they present an interesting case with teaching value from the floors, clinic or the ICU.
2. 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.
3. Program Wednesdays:
   1. Journal Clubs
   2. Guidelines Reviews
   3. Morbidity and Mortality
   4. Research meetings
4. Resident Report - PGY2 and PGY3s are preassigned lecture topics of clinical relevance to present.
5. Joint Conference Fridays: These lectures are also attended by family medicine, pharmacy, and dental residents.
   1. Physical Examination Curriculum
   2. Financial Literacy
   3. Emergency Medicine Lectures
   4. Humanism in Medicine
   5. Radiology Lectures
   6. Quality and Improvement

Noon Conferences [12:30 - 1:30]

Subspeciality Conferences

During the afternoon timeslot, a faculty subspecialist will present a lecture or workshop related to their field. The subspeciality curriculum is reviewed yearly to ensure topics are clinically relevant, up to date, and relevant to the ABIM.

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.

RRT Series

The June curriculum is designed to prepare interns for senior duties. Each graduating intern is assigned a 'medical emergency' or rapid response topic to prepare and present to their colleagues. In following sessions, resident groups practice the management of multiemergency scenarios in the SimLab. This is broadcasted live to their co-interns, and then each case is discussed and reviewed.

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 discussed in a group format. 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.