How much formal teaching is done?
The program provides several settings for formal teaching. Fixed weekly conferences include medical grand rounds and a departmental mortality and morbidity conference. Sign in rounds occur daily at 7.45am where recent admissions are discussed. Core internal medicine rounds are twice a week involving case presentations, mortality and morbidity review, critical appraisal rounds, resident case of the month competition and subspecialty lectures. Other days provide opportunities for residents to attend subspecialty conferences of their choice. Academic half days are Wednesday afternoons for the PGY1 & PGY2 residents with a 2-year rotating curriculum covering all the major areas of general internal medicine. The PGY3s have a separate academic half day on Mondays with a distinct curriculum aimed at higher level learners. In addition a formal journal club is held every 1-2 months. • Research opportunities? Queens boasts an active research faculty and our residents are encouraged to participate
