Yale School of Medicine.

Traditional Program

Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Training Program

The Typical Schedule for the Year

The table shows rotations during the 3 years of training. Our academic year is divided into 4-week blocks, thus there are 13 blocks in each year. A few rotations and vacation may be for 2 weeks and are therefore shown as 0.5 blocks. Note, this is an approximation for a houseofficer in a given year, the spectrum for individual housestaff in each year may vary somewhat, though not substantially.

  Ward Rotations MICU/V.A. ICU CCU Medicine Consult. Service Float & Jeop Amb. ED Elective Vacation
PGY-1 Cat. 5.0 to 5.5 1.5 1.0   1 to 1.5 2.0   1.0 1.0
PGY-1 Prelim 6.0 to 6.5 1.0     1.5 to 2.0 1.0   2.0 1.0
PGY-2 Resident 4.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 1.0
PGY-3 Resident 4.0 1.5   0.5 1.5 0.5 1.0 3.0 1.0

One of the ward rotations for PGY-2 residents is spent as the supervising resident at our Primary Care Program’s main site, the Waterbury Hospital, in order to give our residents an exposure to inpatient medicine at a community hospital where there are subspecialists but no subspecialty fellows.

Our Preliminary Interns have their intensive care training for only one block and it takes place at our Primary Care Program’s main site, the Waterbury Hospital. The purpose of this is to meet the curricular needs of Preliminary interns of an exposure to a general intensive care unit where they see patients with medical, cardiac and neurological patients in need of intensive care.

One of these Ambulatory blocks is at Yale and is a call month where the intern takes call every fourth day on the Generalist Team (see description of Generalist Team and its purpose of providing a unique inpatient-outpatient continuity experience in the section on Inpatient Education). The other Ambulatory block is a non call block at the VA.

This is a non call block

2 weeks are spent at the Yale emergency Department and 2 weeks at the V.A.