Rotations

• Teams are composed of one PGY-2 or PGY-3 resident, two PGY-1 interns, and two medical students.
• Each team is assigned an attending. The attending conducts daily teaching rounds and serves as the attending on record for staff admissions to their team.
• Teams admit no more than 10 patients per on-call night; the case load is distributed between the interns.
• Night float covers all cross-coverage duties throughout the night.
• All residents and interns have a minimum of four days off per month.

Intensive Care Unit/Coronary Care Unit

• The ICU has 20 and CCU has 10 beds and are managed by separate house staff and attending physicians.
• Each CCU team is composed of four PGY-2 or PGY-3 residents and ICU team composed of three interns.,one PGY-2 and one PGY-3.Medical students are frequently involved in CCU rotations.
• Board-certified intensivists and cardiologists admit, manage, and teach about all patients in the ICU and CCU.
• All residents and interns have a minimum of four days off per four-week block.

Ambulatory Block Rotation

• Residents are assigned to a total of two blocks of ambulatory medicine during their three years of training at the Glenridge Medical Center.
• Preliminary interns also need to do an ambulatory block rotation.
• During this rotation, didactic sessions focus on advanced physical diagnosis, communication skills, suturing and splinting, and beginner critical appraisal skills.
• The PGY-2 block rotations expose residents to the variety of sites where internists may choose to practice. Residents rotate through adolescent clinic in Howard University Hospital IN Washington, DC.

• All residents complete one block of geriatric medicine during their three years at the Prince George’sHospital Center.
• Residents participate in inpatient consultation, home care visits, and a geriatric assessment program.

Emergency Medicine

• Residents participate in the emergency medicine rotation during their three years.
• Experienced emergency medicine specialists from GW hospital supervise residents as they care for a wide variety of acute and emergent conditions.
• Residents in the emergency medicine rotation have the opportunity to perform a wide variety of invasive procedures

Continuity Clinic

• All categorical interns and residents are assigned a weekly continuity clinic.
• Clinic is scheduled at the newly constructed Faculty-Resident Ambulatory Care Center.
• Registered nurses triage phone calls and take messages for resident physicians.
• Typically, each resident works with the same faculty member to care for a panel of patients throughout their tenure at the clinic.
• Residents work in the clinic during all rotations except during night float.

Night Float

• Residents assigned to night float work either 5 days a week.
• Night float rotations incorporate sufficient off-time allowing residents to better balance their personal life and training.
• Night float teams provide all cross coverage for medical teams during their duty hours.
• Patients admitted by the night float teams are reassigned to the teams on short call the next day.
• PGY-2’s are generally not assigned to night float.

PGY-1
Categorical

PGY-1
Prelimary

PGY-2

PGY-3

5

5

3

1

2

2

1

1

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None

3

1

1

1

None

1

1

1

1

5

1

1

1

0

½ day per week

None

½ day per week

½ day per week

0

0

1

1

1

1

1

1