Patients are admitted either directly from the Emergency Department or from the hospital wards. Other patients will be transferred to the General Medicine Firm Services. In addition, a core set of lectures on intensive care medicine is given to every PGY-1 rotation. The Goodyer Firm consists of approximately forty patients who have a cardiologic diagnosis as the primary reason for their admission. This will include patients admitted through the Emergency Department who do not require admission to the CCU, patients admitted electively for evaluation of cardiac disease, and patients transferred from either other hospitals or from the CCU team.
Night call is every fourth night.
Third-year students may also be assigned to the team. Fourth year students may elect to do a subinternship on this service. A separate team of Clinical Nurse Specialists will cover the elective cardiac catheterization patients and transfers, and attend the teaching activities of the Goodyer Firm. Third year medical students and Physician Associate students are also assigned to the team. Fourth year students may elect to do a subinternship on this service.