Resident Conferences

Morning Report: This conference is held four times a week at both the University Hospital and the JBVA Hospital . Residents meet with the Chief Residents and a faculty member to discuss interesting and/ or complex cases. Discussions follow an evidence-based approach with a review of the pertinent literature. A separate Intern Morning Report is held weekly at JBVA Hospital . Ambulatory Morning Report is conducted by the Primary Care Chief Resident for those housestaff on the Ambulatory Block Rotation.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds: Held on Tuesdays at 8AM and showcases nationally and internationally renowned speakers.

Firm Conference: Every Tuesday at noon , one of the 3 medicine services at the University Hospital presents a case in a unique multidisciplinary fashion. The case is one that is currently in-house, has multi-service involvement, commonly with services outside of internal medicine. This conference creates a forum in which residents can hear attending faculty discuss their thought processes related to a current case and it's diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Occurs every other Wednesday at noon and is among the most popular conferences for students, residents and faculty. The conference focuses on a single case each week, which is discussed in-depth by expert faculty from all the relevant institutional departments.

Journal Club: The conference has a curriculum of didactic sessions on evidence-based medicine followed by a critical review of clinically important articles. The housestaff take great pride in their skills as critical thinkers, much of which is learned in these sessions and reflected in their daily clinical decisions.

Noon Conference Curriculum: Each subspecialty is assigned one noon slot per month to present topics in their specific curriculum. The topics in the first six months are common "core" entities for each area (e.g. Infectious Diseases lecture on urinary tract infections; Cardiology lecture on congestive heart failure). The later six months are less common topics (e.g. Endocrinology will discuss non-beta cell tumors of the pancreas; Hematology will discuss the thalassemias). he conference has a curriculum of didactic sessions on evidence-based medicine followed by a critical review of clinically important articles. The housestaff take great pride in their skills as critical thinkers, much of which is learned in these sessions and reflected in their daily clinical decisions. These are repeated once every three years. Using this structure, the entire depth and breadth of Internal Medicine is covered with the appropriate emphasis on more common illnesses.