The preceptoral model of teaching is utilized on a number of rotaions to expose residents to both ambulatory and inpatient components of individual faculty members' practices. The Richard Roudebush Veterans Administration Hospital is both a primary and tertiary care facility which serves veterans from Indiana and surrounding states. A 200 bed facility with 110 medicine beds, it handles more than 4,000 admissions annually. The V.A. provides training in general and subspecialty clinics within a beautiful, ambulatory facility. At Wishard and the V.A. Hospitals inpatient services are grouped as general medicine and general pediatric services.
Subspecialty care is provided by consultant teams.
Both campuses have state of the art medical libraries adjacent to the hospitals with access to numerous databases and sophisticated media resources. Each hospital has its own residents' library, open 24 hours a day. Standard pediatric or medicine textbooks and reference materials are available for patient care. Internet access is available at each facility.