Lancaster Internal Medicine Curriculum
Lancaster Internal Medicine
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The Internal Medicine program at Lancaster Medical Center will use a 4+2 (X+Y) Model Curriculum.
A “4+2” block schedule means that our residents have a four-week inpatient rotation followed by two week of exclusively ambulatory training. The ambulatory week includes a combination of continuity clinic sessions, subspecialty ambulatory clinic, two to four educational half-days including our Quality Improvement Project, Simulation training and for administration work (Calling patients, following up lab results and writing letters) Residents will still have a longitudinal relationship with their clinic patients and preceptors throughout residency.
Benefits of this Model:
- Improves your educational experience.
- Improves patient care.
- Improves continuity with your clinic patients.
- The ambulatory setting is not as intense as inpatient rotations, which acts as a de-stressor for our residents.
- Build your own patient panel and act as their primary care physician.
- Encourages residents to pursue primary care which is an absolute essential for a community.
- Every 5th and 6th week your evenings and weekends are yours to spend with family and friends!
- The schedule itself a strong foundation towards resident wellness.
Rotations
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology
- Infectious disease
- Nephrology
- Oncology
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Women’s Health
- General Internal Medicine/Ambulatory Outpatient Clinic (12 blocks)
- Hospital Medicine Inpatient Teams (9 Blocks)
- Night Float (1.5 Blocks)
- Individualized Educational Experiences (6 Blocks)
- ICU / Critical Care Medicine (5 Blocks)
- Cardiology (1 Block)
- Endocrinology (1 Blocks)
- Acute/Emergency Medicine (1 Block)
- Nephrology (0.5 Block)
- Neurology (0.5 Block)
- Pulmonology (0.5 Block)
- Gastroenterology (0.5 Block)
- Infectious Disease (0.5Block)
Conferences and Educational Activities
Opportunities to engage in additional learning experiences designed to focus on a series of educational topics.
Resident-led conferences using clinical pearls and board style questions, these interactive sessions aim to regularly assess and improve medical knowledge at all levels, supervised by a faculty. Using the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) tools, these sessions allow for residents and faculty to help each other prepare for the certifying/recertifying examinations and maintenance of certification (MOC) in internal medicine.
This 18-month curriculum is designed to cover the core topics in internal medicine and intentionally uses repetition to allow learners to interact with the content at the introductory and more advanced levels and the opportunity to revisit and consolidate knowledge as they grow in clinical experiences and exposure. This series is run primarily by the core faculty and augments learning in the clinical setting (additional time spent on conditions that are important but less commonly seen in the clinical setting).
MUSC Lancaster hosts its own academically rich Grand Rounds on the fourth Thursday of every month. This highly enriching series features subspecialty experts and invited guest speakers who present cutting-edge, evidence-based updates and discuss how current guidelines are shaping each field of medicine. Our residents benefit from a front-row experience in this premier educational forum, gaining direct exposure to evolving clinical practice and expert perspectives.
Interactive case-based discussion of unique and or challenging cases to develop clinical reasoning and decision making. Cases are either based at Lancaster Medical Center or Charleston MUSC but always have a faculty member from LMC to facilitate the discussion in-person.
This series looks at new and seminal articles relevant to the practice of internal medicine. The presentations are focused on appraisal of the medical evidence and the ramifications for practice.
The goals is to: (1) improve the quality and safety of our patient care by learning from past performance, adverse events, errors, and near misses, (2) identify and suggest practice and systems improvements to prevent similar future episodes, and (3) educate all internal medicine intern physicians via an experiential opportunity of reviewing a real-life Moffitt case with a faculty-supervised, structured root cause analysis, thereby enhancing our culture of safety within our residency program, department, and institution.
This resident guided series is held monthly and is a chance to enjoy food and time together with content and activities around all aspects of wellbeing included.
The Residents’ Forum is a structured monthly meeting that provides a safe, open space for Internal Medicine residents to express concerns, propose improvements, and engage in dialogue with program leadership. Topics typically include curriculum, workflow, clinical rotations, wellness initiatives, and professional development. The goal is to empower residents and continually improve the residency experience.
This Jeopardy parody game is an effective tool for residents which brings fun in education. Our residents love testing their knowledge and teamwork in our fast-paced Medical Jeopardy game—friendly competition with serious learning built in.
Done in our sim centers for residents to gain skills in managing rapid responses and code blue situations.
Training in performing bedside ultrasound, central and peripheral line placement, LPs, IOs and other procedures.
Longitudinal Curricular Threads
Our longitudinal curricular threads incorporate MUSC Health expertise and local and national resources with fundamental content with the aim to equip residents with a strong understanding of health systems science.
