The program strives to teach residents the thought process and problem-solving skills that will give these residents the versatility to see both adults and children with confidence. Residents spend rotating four-month blocks in Internal Medicine or Pediatrics through their training, completing 24 months of each specialty. Beginning the first year, residents maintain half-day continuity clinics in both pediatrics and internal medicine. Fulltime faculty preceptors from each department supervise these clinics. Residents are encouraged to recruit patients into their continuity clinics throughout their training.
Flexibility is built into the continuity clinic schedule especially during critical care rotations.
In addition, rotations in pediatric cardiology, adolescent medicine, geriatrics, and nephrology are completed along with the first supervisory adult inpatient ward rotations. A total of four elective rotations are also completed during these years. Flexibility is key, and combined electives in medicine and pediatrics subspecialties are available. The PGY-4 year is largely supervisory especially on the pediatric wards, adult ICU, and adult inpatient wards. Several electives, a second month of adult cardiology, and experiences in the pediatric ER, urgent care and ambulatory clinics round out the residents training.