Typical Three-Year Experience
 

 

HO-I
 

GEN MED WARD

MICU

AMB ACUTE CARE

HEM ONC WARD/ INOC

NEURO WARD

AMB AGE

CARDS WARD

GEN MED WARD/ INOC

AMB BLOCK

CCU

RENAL WARD

ED

 

• Composed of 12 one-month rotations
• INOC stands for Intern Night On-Call. Interns spend one half of one general medicine ward month and one half of one specialty ward month on night float ( INOC).  The other half of the month is spent as a daytime member of the team. Unless “INOC” is indicated on the schedule, the intern spends the entire month as a daytime member of the team. 
• Interns have 3-4 ambulatory rotations.  One month is ED and one month is Acute Care Clinic at either Downtown Health Plaza (DHP) or Outpatient Department (OPD).  Other ambulatory rotations include:
  • Ambulatory Geriatric Experience (AGE) - A palliative care rotation which consists of approximately two weeks of geriatric clinics, home care visits and nursing home visits, and two weeks of palliative care consultations and rounds at local hospice facility.
  • Ambulatory Block - An ambulatory experience consisting of exposure to community resources, support services available to our patients, hospice care and a range of general or specialty clinics based on the interests of the intern. If interested, interns can use part of this rotation to start a research project.
  • Other outpatient rotations for preliminary or neurology interns geared toward their personal career plan
• These ambulatory months also include special seminars on advanced interviewing and communication skills, professionalism, an introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine, and an introduction to the systems of health care and quality improvement.
• Interns receive six days holiday over either Christmas or New Years, one week off From June 24 to June 30 and two other weeks of their choosing during ambulatory rotations or the ED rotation.

 

HO-II
 

ID CONSULT

GEN MED WARD

CARDS WARD

RESEARCH ELECTIVE

GEN MED CONSULT

CCU

HEM ONC WARD

ROC

RHEUM CONSULT

MICU

ENDO CONSULT

COMM-UNITY BASED ELECTIVE

 

HO-III
 

FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER

PULM CONSULT

RENAL WARD

ACE WARD

GI CONSULT

ED/ UIMA

MICU

DERM ELECTIVE

ACUTE CARE CLINIC

ROC

AMB BLOCK ELECTIVE

AMB BLOCK ELECTIVE

 

• Each year composed of 12 one-month rotations.

• Rotation key:
  • FMC - Residents gain experience on a hospitalist service at Forsyth Medical Center, a large community hospital in Winston-Salem.
  • ACE Ward (Acute Care for the Elderly) - Residents work with our geriatricians caring for elderly patients in the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging.
  • Ambulatory Block Elective - 2 month self-designed opportunity in the HOII/HOIII years to improve skills in general medicine clinics, subspecialty clinics and non-internal medicine ambulatory settings (GYN, Urology, ENT, Ortho, Radiology, etc.)
  • ROC - Resident On Call (upper level night float month)
  • University Internal Medicine Associates (UIMA) - A premier primary care clinic experience in which the intern participates as a partner with the generalist faculty.
• Residents get six days of holiday over either Christmas or New Years and three other weeks of their choosing during Elective months, Ambulatory Blocks, or Consult months.