House officers benefit from both the amount and range of clinical training they receive. Under faculty supervision house officers serve as primary physicians for almost all clinic and hospital patients. Another important dimension of this training is the responsibility for supervising and teaching our junior and senior medical students. The preliminary program offers three positions for one year of basic Internal Medicine for those planning to continue their training in other disciplines. On completion of the categorical program fellowships are available in all the major medical subspecialties.
Training is divided into month-long blocks spent on the various clinical services.
Several months of elective rotations are offered each year. In addition, all house officers serve in the General Internal Medicine Clinic one-half day each week. Each team is usually composed of a faculty attending, an upper level resident, two interns and a varying number of medical students. While the attending physician has ultimate responsibility for patients, the housestaff serve as the primary physicians, participating in all management decisions and routinely performing most common medical procedures. Subspecialty care is provided through consultation on the general medical wards.