Monthly intern assignments include three subspecialty wards and five general medicine wards. Interns also spend a month in the emergency room, in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, and in ambulatory care. PGY1 residents have eight call months and one month in the emergency room. PGY2 residents have six call months. PGY3 residents have five call months.
Schedules vary depending on the rotation.
During the emergency room rotation, call is generally taken in 10-hour shifts, with four days on, then 36 hours off. On post call days, residents take no admissions after approximately 2 p.m., and take admissions for only their service from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on non-call days. Post call, they are finished after morning rounds, and have a short day on pre call days. A variety of topics is covered at regularly scheduled conferences. The house staff-oriented noon conference held Mondays and Thursdays covers subspecialty topics, morbidity and mortality, ethics and noninternal medicine topics.