A board-certified general internist faculty member leads each team and serves as the teaching attending and the attending of record. Other team members include a senior resident who is either in their second or third year of training, two first year residents and two medical students. The admissions represent a diverse spectrum of clinical diseases.
Patients range in age from adolescent to geriatric.
Each first year resident manages, under the supervision of his attending and senior resident, seven to ten patients. The faculty and resident staff take an active role in teaching the medical students from Temple University School of Medicine and the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. The Internal Medicine Subspecialty Rotations Private General Medicine Service Three board-certified general internists are the teaching faculty for this service. During this rotation in the first year, the emphasis is on inpatient care of general medicine patients and the role of the general internist as consultant in peri-operative care. As a senior resident, the rotation is entirely outpatient based in the practice's office.