Curriculum
As a resident in our program you'll become an active participant in your own education.
You'll learn to:
- Refine your data gathering skills.
- Provide excellent patient care.
- Hone your clinical judgment.
Customized rotations are often possible in order to help residents achieve their professional goals.
Curriculum
*PGY-I
| Medicine Wards | 3 months |
| Emergency Medicine | 1 month |
| Critical Care | 2 months |
| Ambulatory Block | 1 month |
| Electives | 3 months |
| Infectious Disease | 2 months |
| Continuity Clinic | 1/2 day each week |
*Note: Osteopathic interns complete the Internal Medicine Specialty Track Program offered through the MSU/KCMS Osteopathic Internship and enter the AOA/ACGME dually accredited Internal Medicine Program at the PGY-2 level. Click here to view the osteopathic curriculum.
*PGY-II
| Ward Supervisor | 4 months |
| Ambulatory Block | 1 month |
| Critical Care | 2 months |
| Electives | 5 months |
| Continuity Clinic | 1/2 day each week |
*PGY-III
| Inpatient Consults | 1 month |
| Scholarly Activity | 1 month |
| Senior Hospital Sub-Attending | 2 months |
| Critical Care Supervisor | 1 month |
| Ambulatory Block | 1 month |
| Electives | 5 months |
| Outpatient Community Medical Practice | 1 month |
| Continuity Clinic | 1/2 day each week |
A typical day on an Inpatient Rotation
Outpatient & Inpatient Rotations & Procedures
In order to gain a well-rounded understanding of the disease process, residents need both outpatient and inpatient experiences. At least 30 percent of your training will be in ambulatory and outpatient continuity settings, learning how to diagnose and treat patients over time. Inpatient rotations focus on learning critical diagnostic management issues in an isolated time frame.
The following is an overview of what will be included in your rotations:
Outpatient rotations involve continuity and ambulatory months with full-time faculty as well as subspecialty rotations in offices and clinics.
There are abundant opportunities to develop both ambulatory skills and procedural competence during these rotations.
You'll have hands-on experience with such procedures as: flexible sigmoidoscopy, EKG interpretation, office spirometry, skin biopsy, joint arthrocentesis, office gynecology, office orthopaedics/sports medicine, cardiac stress tests and echocardiography.
Inpatient rotations involve direct patient care responsibility.
Daily rounds are focused on discussions of patient care plans with senior residents as well as attending physicians. Formal and informal bedside teaching rounds occur daily.
Your inpatient procedural experiences will include arterial line placement, central line placement, Swan-Ganz catheterization, intubation, chest tube placement, cardiac pacemaker placement, lumbar punctures, thoracentesis, and paracentesis.