How much teaching and didactics are there? Are residents involved in teaching medical students?
Everyone learns in different ways, and much of traditional residency work supports learning in an independent, experiential way. Attendings and senior residents teach on the fly but there are also daily didactic lectures. Morning teaching rounds happen on inpatient rotations, led by a rotating combination of senior residents, faculty and specialist attendings. We also have noon conference every day, covering an organized range of inpatient and outpatient topics. Grand rounds sponsored by the hospital are also weekly, hosting regional specialists from Portland and Boston, as well as highlighting topics of interest led by local physicians. Tuesday afternoons are dedicated teaching conferences that require a longer period of time, including procedural training, longitudinal psychology topics, ethics, literature in medicine, and case-based groups particularly focused on chronic pain management, integrative medicine, and nursing home care. The residency is currently expanding didactic and e
Everyone learns in different ways, and much of traditional residency work supports learning in an independent, experiential way. Attendings and senior residents teach on the fly but there are also daily didactic lectures. Morning teaching rounds happen at both hospitals on inpatient rotations, led by a rotating combination of senior residents, faculty and specialist attendings. We also have noon conference every day, covering an organized range of inpatient and outpatient topics. Grand rounds sponsored by the hospital are also weekly, hosting regional specialist from Portland and Boston, as well as highlighting topics of interest led by local physicians. Tuesday afternoons are dedicated teaching conferences that require a longer period of time, including procedural training, longitudinal psychology topics, ethics, literature in medicine, and case-based groups particularly focused on chronic pain management, integrative medicine, and nursing home care. The residency is currently expandi
