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Rotation Schedule

While our curriculum is structured in accordance with the Residency Review Committee's requirements, we're very flexible in adapting clinical rotations to each resident's educational needs.

Sample Rotation

  PGY - I PGY - II PGY - III
1. General Medicine General Medicine General Medicine
2. General Medicine General Medicine General Medicine
3. General Medicine General Medicine General Medicine
4. Ambulatory Care Medicine Ambulatory Care Medicine Ambulatory Care Medicine
5. CCU CCU CCU
6. ICU ICU ICU
7. Night Float Night Float / Subspecialty Night Float / Subspecialty
8. Emergency Medicine Subspecialty General Medicine
9. Subspecialty Subspecialty Subspecialty
10. Subspecialty Subspecialty Subspecialty
11. Subspecialty Subspecialty Subspecialty
12. Subspecialty Subspecialty Subspecialty

 

General Internal Medicine

We use a team approach in Summa’s general medical hospital services. Each team consists of an attending physician to head the team, two to three PGY-II or PGY-III residents, two to three PGY-I residents, medical student, social workers, and pharmacists during their internal medicine clinical clerkship.

PGY-I residents are given primary charge of patients admitted under the team. They’re responsible for day-to-day care of each patient assigned to the team, including performing the history and physical examination and writing daily progress notes and orders. The senior resident is responsible for supervising the team’s PGY-I residents and medical students – as well as organizing the team’s educational activities. A faculty member conducts daily teaching rounds.

Residents see both house cases and private patients on the general internal medicine service and participate equally in the management of both.

Critical Care Units

Training in critical care is organized around three teaching services, one for the CCU and two for the ICU. 

For ICU rounds, a full-time intensivist is responsible. CCU rounds are the responsibility of cardiologists within the Department of Cardiology. A full range of diagnostic and therapeutic measures are available. With our partnership with our Critical Care, General Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology fellowships, residents are exposed to a wide variety of critical care medicine. 

With appropriate supervision, residents are responsible for coordination and continuation of patient care in the critical care units.

Electives

Required Internal Medicine subspecialty rotations include:

  • Cardiology
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • General Internal Medicine Consults
  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Hematology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Oncology
  • Pulmonary
  • Rheumatology

Additional elective rotations include:

  • Addiction Medicine
  • Allergy/Immunology
  • Bariatrics
  • Critical Care
  • Dermatology
  • HIV Medicine
  • Hospice & Palliative Care
  • Pathology
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Pride Clinic
  • Psychiatry
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Research

Office-based electives are available in the following non-internal medicine specialties:

  • ENT
  • Gynecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopaedics
  • Sports Medicine
  • Urology

During subspecialty rotations, consultations are seen first by the resident. The subspecialists review the history and physical findings with the resident, then discuss pathophysiology, differential diagnosis and management. Daily didactic teaching is maintained during these rotations.

Other Rotations

Time is spent in other areas of medicine important to the overall management of ambulatory patients. Rotations in gynecology, urology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and dermatology are available.

Teaching Staff

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