We emphasize excellence in clini- cal medicine, patient care, and teaching, as well as exposure to recent advances in all biomedical sciences. Priority is given to educating and training a primary care or comprehensive internist. The University of Kansas Medical Center has four major medical services, two in general medicine as well as Gastroenterology and Hematology. Also present are subspecialty inpatient services providing care in Cardiology, Nephrology, Oncology, and Medical Intensive Care. While providing extensive exposure to the inpatient consult, these services also emphasize outpatient care in the subspecialty ambulatory clinics.
Rotations are one to two months in length.
An R-1 has typically ten months of general and subspecialty inpatient services, one month of intensive care, and one month of ambulatory service. All residents will have at least one half day a week of continuity, primary care clinic during their three years of residency at an assigned time and site. As much as possible, rotations are chosen to give these physicians a broad basis in general medicine, yet provide them with experiences befitting the needs of their chosen specialty. This flexibility can best be accomplished at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In-house call for the general medicine and subspecialty inpatient services at each of the training sites affiliated with KUMC is no more than every fifth night.