In both the ICCU and the CCU, a team of three houseofficers works closely with a cardiology attending and fellow. The team also attends a series of teaching conferences devoted to cardiology topics. The intern is responsible for diagnosis and management of patients admitted with a wide variety of neurologic disorders. Formal bedside rounds and attending teaching sessions with Neurology staff assist the intern in building a core neurology knowledge base. Staffed by a multidisciplinary team of medicine, surgery and anesthesia housestaff and attendings, the ICU offers medicine residents the opportunity to act as consultants and primary care givers for medical and surgical patients.
Didactic conferences focus on the learning needs of residents.
This team evaluates and admits new patients to the hospital and provides cross-coverage for other medicine patients. Both members of the team attend morning report each day. Assessment of medical issues in adult patients throughout the hospital forms the core of the experience, which also includes significant exposure to preoperative medical evaluation and outpatient internal medicine consultation. The second half of the two-week neurology inpatient experience, the neurology outpatient rotation involves a number of diverse experiences including new and returning patient clinic visits, EEG analysis, EMG didactics, sleep medicine and neurology educational conferences. Medicine housestaff begin their continuity clinics no later than September of the PGY-1 year.