A brief description of rotations by year follows.
Call varies somewhat from rotation to rotation, but is approximately every fourth night.
These are inpatient experiences. In each setting, residents are members of a team including interns and more senior residents of family practice or internal medicine. Attending are either family practice faculty or faculty from the Department of Internal Medicine, depending on the rotation. Call varies slightly from one rotation to another but generally involves long call every fourth night, with short call in between, with established maximum numbers of admissions for each. Some of the common procedures residents learn in the first year include cardiac resuscitation, arterial puncture, thoracentesis and interpretation of EKG, chest x-rays and basic CT scans.