Inpatient family medicine comprises three blocks throughout the year. First-year residents are part of the family medicine team that is composed of two upper level residents, two interns and a family medicine attending. Teaching rounds with the family medicine attending are conducted daily. Pediatric patients are admitted to the family medicine service. Call is every fourth night.
Residents participate in and present at weekly conferences.
Interns work on a general medicine service seeing a broad variety of patients and are taught by internal medicine attendings. Call is every fourth night. Call every fourth night on the Family Medicine Hospital Service. One block at Methodist Hospital medical intensive care unit. Supervision by Jefferson internal medicine upper level residents, pulmonary fellows and community attendings.