R2 Year Residents spend their second year at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Boise R2s spend six months on general medicine. Morning activities consist of inpatient work rounds, morning report to the Chief of Medicine, and educational conferences. Two half-days are spent in clinic, where residents develop their own outpatient practice. Inpatient admissions come from the resident's own clinic and also include other patients without an assigned primary care physician.
Night call is approximately every fifth night.
During the ambulatory medicine selective, residents attend dermatology, rheumatology, and gastroenterology outpatient clinics. They pursue a comprehensive curriculum which includes directed readings, case discussions, role playing, and problem-solving activities. During electives and selectives, residents continue to attend their own medicine continuity clinics. There is no night call during these rotations. Residents work with interns from two University of Washington-sponsored training programs based in Boise.