Internal Medicine Conferences
Teaching conferences are carefully designed to provide the optimal balance between hands-on clinical learning and structured, didactic teaching. Following is a description of the major, regularly scheduled conferences which occur throughout the academic year:
Noon Conference:
Traditional subject-oriented conferences are held 3 or 4 days per week for 45 to 60 minutes, with the majority given by faculty, and a small percentage by faculty, and a small percentage by fellows. The subjects are primarily organized as follows:
July and August:
Basic topics geared primarily towards new interns
Sept. through June:
Each month is focused on a subspecialty of Medicine, to cover all the major subspecialties over the academic year, and an end-of-month board review exam is administered, graded, and reviewed with faculty.
All noon conferences are webcast, to allow simultaneous participation by residents on Ambulatory block who are off-site. They are also recorded and archived for viewing by residents on nights, vacations, and away rotations.
Morning Report:
7:30 to 8:30 AM two days/week; case-based discussion of several freshly admitted patients,
presented by Night Float residents with floor residents, Hospitalists, and rotating subspecialty faculty participating.
Ambulatory Report:
Case-based discussion of evidence-based approach to outpatient cases, conducted weekly for each PGY-class separately, for those on Ambulatory Block.
Grand Rounds:
Tuesday mornings 8:30 AM, covering varied topics in General Medicine and subspecialties, presented by experts from a wide range of institutions, including NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and its affiliated institutions.
Journal Club:
Resident-led, faculty facilitated discussion of recent articles, emphasizing critical appraisal skills and basic biostatistical concepts.
Resident Report:
Weekly, case-based presentations by PGY-3’s, emphasizing PICO questions and focused, evidence-based discussion.
Intern Report:
Each PGY-1 presents an in-depth case-based literature review to their peer group, students and a few faculty, beginning in the Fall or early Winter.
Junior Grand Rounds:
PGY-2 present in a grand round style conference with a topic of their choice, mentored by faculty that are experts in the field.
Chiefs Conference:
PGY-3 Residents present case-based topics. They review and lead the discussion in conjunction with our chairman of medicine and each of our subspeciality chiefs.
In addition, there are many teaching conferences and Grand Rounds held on a regular basis by the subspecialty divisions and other clinical departments, and Medicine Residents are invited to participate as their clinical responsibilities and other required teaching conferences allow.