Teaching Conferences

After consultation with the Housestaff Representatives Committee, the following conferences have been identified as important departmental teaching activities that residents should attend regularly. It is also understood that patient care responsibilities, vacations, and other types of leave will prevent residents from attending these conferences from time to time.

• Annual Residency Program Retreats
• Physicians, Patients and Society (formerly Behavioral Medicine)
• Intern Teaching Conference
• Interns' Report
• Resident Teaching Conference
• Residents' Report
• Medical Grand Rounds
• Monday Noon Conference
• Morbidity and Mortality Conference
• Primary Care Conference
• Primary Care Clinical Problem Solving Seminar
• Chief-of-Service Rounds
• Combined Staff Conferences
• Journal Club
• Primary Care Noon Conference
• Professor's Rounds

Didactic Teaching Conferences

• Medical Grand Rounds are held Thursday mornings from August through early June from 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. in Room T-625 of the Health Sciences Center. 

• Intern Teaching Conference is held Thursday morning from the end of June through August from 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. in room D-209 in the Health Sciences Center.  These lectures are intended to ease the transition to the wards and intensive care units for beginning interns and to provide practical guidelines for the management of basic problems.  Additionally, they also provide an opportunity for all Medicine R1s to interact on a regular basis.  All R1s are excused from clinical duties to attend these sessions.

• Resident Teaching Conference is held on Thursday mornings from September through mid-June following Grand Rounds from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. in Room RR-110 in the Health Sciences Center.  These conferences focus in depth on a single topic rather than providing broad coverage of an area.  An R3 and a faculty member work together in preparing the conference and an annotated bibliography.  The faculty member usually gives the presentation.  Copies of handouts from prior conferences are available in the Medicine Residency office.  Although R2s and R3s primarily attend these conferences, R1s are welcome to join as their schedules allow.

• Monday Noon Conference is held each week at the affiliated hospitals.  This series of conferences deals with "core" topics in Internal Medicine, which have been selected in advance by the chief residents.  During each four-week period corresponding to an R1 rotation, the same topics are covered at all of the training sites so that all of the housestaff have an opportunity to participate in the entire curriculum.  Often, the same faculty member will present a topic at each of the hospitals during the course of a month.  The conferences are case-based and interactive.  Generally, a brief handout is provided summarizing key points and references.  Schedules for these conferences are posted at each hospital.

• Resident as Teacher Workshop is a full-day course for R2s designed to enhance resident skills as teachers and team leaders.  It is held annually in an informal and interactive environment with a teaching manual handout.

• Morbidity and Mortality Conference - unique to each facility; see description for appropriate hospital.

• Chairman's/Professors' Rounds - unique to each facility; see description for appropriate hospital.

• Evidence Based Medicine and Psychosocial Conferences - see descriptions under Ambulatory Medicine.