House staff are invited and welcome at any of these functions, and commonly are active participants when assigned to subspecialty rotations. Regular participants include the team residents, chief residents, and invited faculty members. They also can acquire passwords and instructions which enable them to access Medline and other on-line educational services. Each of our hospital clinical sites provides on-line capability 24 hours a day and these educational adjuncts continually expand. Harvey , a humanoid cardiovascular disease simulator manikin, can reproduce over 25 cardiovascular disorders and allow residents to improve skill with bedside cardiovascular diagnosis.
Residents can schedule time to work with the simulator at their convenience.
An educational and travel allowance is available so that residents can attend approved regional or national symposia, or which can be used to help defray some of the cost of textbook purchases. For those residents who would like to explore non-traditional clinical or research activities, flexibility in our program allows us to support these experiences. An in-service written examination is administered annually. This nationally standardized examination allows residents to self-assess their progress assimilating information in Internal Medicine and to compare themselves with others across the country at the same stage of training. Additionally, each resident is observed by an experienced faculty member as they do a complete new patient evaluation in their continuity clinic.