The division also stresses multidisciplinary care, including support services, for patients with cancer. Residents are primarily responsible for evaluating and treating patients admitted to the Oncology Nursing Unit. Both divisional and interdisciplinary oncology conferences are conducted weekly. Residents in the Medical Oncology Service learn the techniques of combined medical, surgical and radiation therapy of malignancy. Additionally, residents have a concentrated experience in autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Residents participate in daily teaching rounds with full-time faculty.
The division conducts a weekly clinicopathologic conference as well as a monthly renal biopsy conference and a monthly clinical research conference. Residents are encouraged to participate in independent research projects in clinical nephrology with a faculty member. The Division of Respiratory Diseases provides residents with exposure to patients with a wide variety of pulmonary and critical illnesses. Through rotations on a consultative service and a medical intensive care service, residents are directly involved with evaluating and managing such patients. House staff officers perform an array of diagnostic procedures such as thoracentesis, pulmonary artery catheter insertion, arterial line insertion and percutaneous pleural biopsy.