Our philosophy is centered on the principle that most of
our residents’ future practices (be it primary care or subspecialty medicine)
will occur in the ambulatory setting. Therefore we have focused most of our
outpatient subspecialty rotations in the outpatient arena.
The second and third year resident schedules are divided into alternating eight-week periods of ambulatory and inpatient experiences. In general, six weeks of each eight week ambulatory block is devoted to one subspecialty area. The six core subspecialties include cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, and rheumatology/geriatrics. The resident spends four weeks of each block in ambulatory-based training, and two weeks on inpatient consultation services. In addition to the five required core specialty blocks, all residents complete a two week rotation in neurology.
During the six weeks of ambulatory experience a resident typically has 7 half-day clinics in that subspecialty each week and therefore will work with 7 different subspecialty attendings on a weekly basis over 4-6 weeks. This provides housestaff the opportunity to work closely with many outstanding subspecialty faculty as well as gain exposure to most of the common diseases treated in those subspecialties.
Junior and senior residents have significant time allowed in their outpatient schedules to design a curriculum based on their career goals. Popular ambulatory electives include: