Med-Peds Residency Curriculum
Introduction
Residents switch from internal medicine to pediatrics approximately every four months. Beginning in PGY-1, all residents have a full day of clinic each week with 1/2 day at the FQHC and 1/2 day at private practices in the community (see training sites for more information).
Curriculum Breakdown
(All of PGY-1 year and first 4 blocks of PGY-2 Year)
Medicine
- 3 blocks general inpatient (UHATS)
- 1 block night float
- 1 block ER
- 1 blocks MICU
- Remaining blocks: electives
Pediatrics
- 3 blocks general inpatient
- 1 block Pediatric Outpatient Acute Care intern
- 1 block Newborn Nursery
- 1 block NICU
- 1 block Pediatric elective
- 1 block Pediatric Emergency Medicine
(Last 9 blocks of PGY-2 year and first 9 blocks of PGY-3 year)
Medicine
- 2 blocks general inpatient supervisory (UHATS)
- 1 block Adult Cardiology
- 1 block Night Float Supervisory
- Remaining blocks: electives
Pediatrics
- 2 blocks general inpatient supervisory
- 1 block NICU
- 1 block PICU
- 1 block Pediatric Outpatient Acute Care supervisory
- Remaining blocks: electives
(Last 4 blocks of PGY-3 and all of PGY-4 year)
Medicine
- 2 blocks general inpatient supervisory (UHATS)
- 1 block geriatrics
- Remaining blocks: electives
Pediatrics
- 1 block general inpatient supervisory
- 1 block adolescent medicine
- 1 block pediatric Emergency Medicine
- 1 block Behavior & Development
- Remaining blocks: electives
Includes the following
- Addiction Medicine
- AHS Hospitalist
- AIM-Supervisory (Ambulatory Internal Medicine)
- AIM Acute Care (Illness)
- Allergy
- Cardiology
- CVICU
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Geriatrics
- Headache
- Hematology/Oncology
- Infectious Disease
- Intern Ambulatory Clinic
- MICU
- Nephrology
- Neurology (Inpt, Outpt, Stroke)
- Night Float
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics (2 or 4 weeks)
- Pain Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Procedure Rotation
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Radiation Oncology
- Rheumatology
- Sleep Med (Pulm or Neuro)
- SOAR
- UCAPS Consult Service
- UHATS Inpatient Medicine
Includes the following
- Adolescent Medicine
- Advocacy
- Allergy/Immunology
- Behavior & Development
- Cardiology
- Child Abuse & Neglect – PRC (2 or 4 weeks)
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Community Pediatrics – various sites
- CVICU
- Echo
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Genetics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Hospitalist Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Inpatient Service
- Nephrology
- Neurology (Inpt or Outpt)
- Newborn/Level II Nursery Supervisory
- Obesity
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- PAC (Pediatric Ambulatory Center)
- Palliative Care
- Procedure Rotation
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Sedation – Analgesia & Simulation (2 weeks)
- Surgery (includes Plastics, Vent Clinic, Ortho & Urology)
(Can be scheduled on IM or Peds Blocks)
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Anesthesiology (2 or 4 weeks)
- Breast Feeding
- College Health (2 or 4 weeks)
- Community Outpatient
- Peoria
- Canton
- Chillicothe
- Farmington
- Washington
- Pontiac
- Escanaba
- Community Medicine
- Clinical Educator Track
- Dermatology (2 or 4 weeks)
- ENT
- Evidence Based Med/High Value Care
- Global/Rural Health (February only)
- Gynecology
- Hematology
- International Health (Haiti or Away)
- Nutrition
- Parenting
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Reading Elective (special circumstances)
- Research Elective (2 or 4 weeks)
- Sports Medicine
- Urology
- Trauma
- Wound
Includes the following:
- Resident Orientation
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- Ethics Curriculum
- Residents As Teachers Program
- Practice Management Seminar
- Daily Medicine and Pediatrics Noon Conferences
- Daily Medicine and Pediatrics Morning Report
- Pediatric Advance Life Support Simulator Lab
- Evidence-Based Medicine Discussions
- Journal Club
- Weekly Medicine and Pediatrics Preclinic Discussions
- Grand Rounds – Medicine/Pediatrics/Med-Peds
- Research (optional)
- International electives
- Board review lectures