CURRICULUM
Our residencies work on a schedule of 13 blocks each year of training. The Med/Peds residency program is made up of 26 pediatric rotations and 26 internal medicine rotations. You will rotate between the two specialties at the end of blocks 4 and 9.
Internship is 16 blocks, eight blocks on both pediatrics and internal medicine. Your intern rotations are as follows:
Pediatric Intern Requirements
- Peds Wards – 3 (1 as Peds HO Ward Intern)
- NICU – 2
- Ambulatory Pediatrics – 2
- Newborn Nursery – 1
IM Intern Requirements
- IM Wards – 4 (Up to 1 as nightfloat, may do 1 or 2 on a subspecialty ward team)
- MICU – 1
- Cardiology – 1
- IM Ambulatory – 1
- Elective - 1
All Med/Peds residents will participate in Directors Month as their first senior resident rotation in their second year. This rotation is done with the IM residency PGY2 residents but counts as either a pediatric or medicine elective.
The rest of your residency will be made up of rotations as a senior resident in pediatrics and as a senior resident in internal medicine. The complete curriculum including intern rotations is as follows.
Pediatric Requirements
- Peds Wards – 6 (1 as Peds HO Ward Intern)
- NICU – 3
- PICU – 1
- Newborn Nursery – 1
- Ambulatory Peds – 5
- Peds ED – 1
- Beh/Dev Peds – 1
- Adolescent Medicine – 1
- Elective – 6 (4 required to be in core specialties)*
- Ambulatory Med/Peds - 1
IM Requirements
- IM Wards – 8 (Up to 2 as nightfloat, may do SS wards each once)
- MICU – 2
- Cardiology – 2
- IM Ambulatory – 2
- Geriatrics – 1
- ED – 1
- GIM Consults – 1
- Elective – 8 (4 required to be in core specialties)*
- Ambulatory Med/Peds - 1
*One elective will be used by Directors Month
Medicine ward rotations may be on the general medicine services, one of the sub-specialty ward teams or may be done as a night float resident. Med/Peds residents can do up to two out of their eight months of medicine wards as night float.
Below is an example of how your rotations may be arranged. This is a guide, and for some residents the order of the rotations will vary from what is seen. Note the key at the bottom for important information on rotations where vacation is allowed.
