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Program Requirements * : Step 1 cut-off 75 Program Type: Community-based The Baptist Health System Internal Medicine Residency Program has prepared residents for the practice of Internal Medicine and its subspecialties since 1972. The program combines academic excellence with a community hospital environment to provide the resident with the best features of traditional university and community programs. Two tertiary care teaching hospitals, Montclair and Princeton, are the sites where Baptist Health System residents deliver care for patients with challenging clinical problems. Program's diverse patient population allows the resident to see the spectrum of both common and uncommon disease processes and to learn important diagnostic skills, develop clinical judgment, and practice evidence-based medicine. The didactic curriculum, with two hours of educational sessions daily, includes case-based lectures on topics important to the general internist as well as those preparing for subspecialty training. Residents excel academically and are required to prepare clinical vignettes designed for publication and presentation at state and national meetings. In addition, graduates of the program demonstrate excellent performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine certifying examination, and those who seek subspecialty fellowships have been successful in obtaining positions, in their chosen subspecialty, at a variety of prestigious institutions. For the medical student seeking a stimulating, challenging, and collegial Internal Medicine residency program, Baptist Health System has much to offer.
The Program
Internal Medicine residents participate in the care of a diverse patient population derived from the private practices of faculty members, referrals from outlying areas, and from the housestaff clinic. Inpatient service assignments are split between the Baptist Montclair campus and the Baptist Princeton campus. Rotations on subspecialty medicine services are required in addition to rotations on general internal medicine services. Elective months in areas of particular interest are provided. Experience in critical care is obtained on all inpatient services, as residents follow their own patients in the intensive care units, and can be supplemented by a rotation in critical care. Ambulatory training is emphasized throughout the three year program, with a weekly continuity care clinic beginning in the first year. During the second year this increases to twice weekly. Block rotations broaden the ambulatory care experience. In addition, many traditional inpatient rotations have ambulatory components.
The patient-centered clinical training that serves as the basis for the BHS Internal Medicine residency is supplemented and strengthened through a regular series of lectures derived from a core curriculum of subjects important for all internists to understand.Morning report, journal club, and non-clinical conferences on ethics, informatics and practice management issues help round out the educational experience of our residents. Excellent medical libraries staffed by full-time librarians are available at both Baptist Montclair and Baptist Princeton, and computer facilities for use in literature searches as well as for other educational purposes are accessible to residents at all times.
The faculty of the BHS Internal Medicine Residency program include outstanding teachers and clinicians with years of experience in both academic medicine and private practice. A core of faculty members with a full-time commitment to the program in each hospital is supplemented by excellent and enthusiastic volunteer faculty. Chief Medical Residents recruited from our program assist with educational programs such as providing didactic lectures each month to medical students and coordinating topics for morning report. In addition, CMRs work hand in hand with full-time faculty members to establish and carry out program policies. CMRs are provided excellent opportunities to assist with patient care activities by serving as clinic supervisors and attending on the inpatient medicine service from time-to-time. Program and Master Curriculum Requirements
 The major goal of the Baptist Health System Internal Medicine Residency Program is to train internists who are well prepared for entering their careers of choice: primary care or subspecialty fellowship training. The program provides a learning environment that fosters the acquisition of knowledge and the diagnostic and therapeutic skills essential for the general internist. A major goal of the categorical program is to provide a broad experience for the resident in a variety of medical subspecialties, thereby strengthening the resident's training as a generalist, and at the same time exposing him/her to fields of interest for future subspecialty training. Evidence-based medicine is emphasized through frequent didactic lectures, literature review, morning report, and conferences.
Curriculum and rotation requirements are structured to meet the expectations of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine. This includes rotations in general internal medicine, all areas of subspecialty medicine, geriatrics, emergency medicine, neurology, and ambulatory care, during the three years of the Internal Medicine residency.
PGY1
First year medicine residents rotate on both private medicine services and the Staff Medicine teaching services. Emergency medicine, ambulatory medicine, internal medicine and subspecialty rotations complement the experience in general internal medicine. PGY-1 medicine residents take night call approximately every fourth night when assigned to the Staff Medicine teaching service (4 months); however, call will be significantly less frequent on other rotations (4-5 call nights per month). Call schedules are chosen by the residents, rather than pre-assigned, allowing for greater schedule flexibility and resident autonomy. PGY-1 residents will generally be relieved of all clinical responsibilities on alternate weekends.
PGY2 and PGY3
Upper-level residents assume progressively greater responsibility for patient care and for supervising and teaching interns and medical students. Rotations on Internal Medicine and subspecialty services will be supplemented by electives on non-medicine specialties and ambulatory block months. Upper level residents have an opportunity to individualize their educational experience.
A night float system has largely supplanted night-call and has effectively reduced resident work hours. An exception is that night call will occur approximately every fourth night during assignments to the Staff Medicine teaching service. Call schedules are chosen by the residents, rather than pre-assigned, allowing for greater schedule flexibility and resident autonomy.
*Two Rotation Options: (a) General Cardiology/CCU & Consultative Experience (b) Ambulatory ECHO/Arrhythmia
Meetings, Conferences, and Education
In addition to required attendance at regularly scheduled conferences on campus, internal medicine residents are encouraged to expand their education by attending local, regional and national scientific meetings. Financial support is provided to PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents for approved scientific meetings as well as a board review course during the final year of training. Associate membership in the American College of Physicians is sponsored by BHS. Educational materials including a yearly textbook stipend are provided.
Faculty
Assistant Program Director: Michael Arthur Moore, MD
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