Curriculum

Core rotations

• Cardiology
• Continuity Clinic
• Critical Care Medicine
• Emergency Department
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Hematology
• Infectious Diseases
• Inpatient General Medicine
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Night Float
• Oncology
• Pulmonary Disease
• Rheumatology

4+1 rotation schedule

Residents will complete a 4-week traditional block rotation (e.g., wards, subspecialty, emergency department, electives, etc.) and then one week of ambulatory and didactic training. Each week, a different cohort of residents rotates through the continuity clinic, and this cycle repeats every five weeks.

• At any given time, there is one cohort on a continuity clinic week (referred to as the “+1″ week), and the other four are on hospital medicine or subspecialty rotations. 

Social medicine curriculum

• The social determinants of health
• Health inequities
• The intricacies of race and poverty
• The social meanings of disease
• Explanations for the disparities in treatment access and health outcomes
• Strategies for increasing value in health care
• Analysis of institutional, economic, and cultural dynamics that shape social and medical responses to disease

Our curriculum includes:

• Attending Rounds – Our board certificated Hospitalist will lead daily bedside teaching rounds to develop fundamental clinical skills, diagnostic reasoning, pathophysiology and professionalism. 
• Continuity and specialty clinics – Residents will assist/engage directly with attending’s on specialty care needs relevant to internal medicine, including cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonology and more.
• Journal Club- Our Core Faculty will provide leadership and structure to critically appraising articles and keeping up-to-date with the current literature.
• Morning Report – Regular resident-led discussions focused on a patient case and moderated by faculty.
• Noon Conference – Will be led by our Core Faculty, Hospitalist and Sub-specialist on essential Internal Medicine topics that are key to Resident education and success.
• Grand Rounds - Regular educational conferences presented by subject matter experts.
• Community-based care – Work on data-driven, community-based population health initiatives.
• EMR training – Comprehensive training in MLKCH’s state-of-the-art EMR system.
• Quality & Safety Conference – Residents will acquire education through robust curriculum on identifying system failures, addressing vulnerabilities in the system, reducing risk, and improving patient safety.  
• Weekly EKG Conference-  Led by MLKCH Cardiologist, will teach high yield review of normal EKG and cardiac pathologies.
• Board Review – Will be conducted once a week with the topic of the month. Education will be provided through monthly test, MKSAP and didactic sessions during Noon Conference.