First-year residents typically work as part of a health care team which includes a supervising second or third-year resident, an attending physician, and medical students. First-year residents spend the majority of the year providing primary care for Internal Medicine patients admitted to one of the geographic medical units. Residents also gain critical care training in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, ambulatory care experience in block outpatient rotations, and acute experience in the Emergency Department...
Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. The Hospital Medicine Track is designed to help physicians become effective agents of change in the complex hospital environment by training them to be leaders in coordinating and participating in the assessment, development and implementation of system improvements. Residents will also become proficient in the care of complex hospitalized patients...
The primary care track is designed for physicians who wish to prepare themselves for the practice of general internal medicine, in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. The primary care track curriculum includes the following: Additional outpatient medicine rotations, particularly in Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, and primary care...
Preliminary residents typically work as part of a health care team which includes a supervising second or third-year resident, an attending physician, and medical students. Preliminary residents spend the majority of the year providing primary care for Internal Medicine patients admitted to one of the geographic medical units. Preliminary residents have elective time to do non-Internal Medicine rotations such as Radiology or Pathology. Preliminary residents also rotate through the Emergency Department...
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue, NA10 | Cleveland, OH 44195
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