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

GEN MED WARD

  • Composed of 13 four-week blocks.
     

  • 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 4 ambulatory rotations.  One month is ED and one month is an Acute Care Clinic at either the Downtown Health Plaza (DHP) or the 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 a 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 may 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 of holiday over either Christmas or New Year’s, one week off from June 24 to June 30 (between first and second year of residency) and two other weeks of their choosing (during ambulatory rotations or the ED rotation).

 

HO-II
 

ID CONSULT

ACE WARD

CARDS WARD

RESEARCH ELECTIVE

RENAL CONSULT

CCU

HEM ONC WARD

ROC

 RHEUM CONSULT

COMMUNITY BASED ELECTIVE

ENDO CONSULT

MICU

MEDICAL SYSTEMS ELECTIVE

 
 

HO-III
 

HOSPITALIST

PULM CONSULT

RENAL WARD

ACE WARD

GI

CONSULT

ED/ UIMA

MICU

ELECTIVE

ACUTE CARE CLINIC

ROC

ELECTIVE

 ELECTIVE

GEN MED CONSULTS

 

  • Each year composed of 13 four-week blocks.
     

  • Rotation key:
     

  • Hospitalist - Residents gain experience on our hospitalist service Wake Forest Internal Medicine Physicians (WFIP).

  • ACE Ward (Acute Care for the Elderly) - Residents work with our geriatricians caring for elderly patients in the J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging.

  • Elective - 5 months 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.). Other electives include research, evidence based medicine, and practice based improvement modules.

  • ROC - Resident On Call (upper level night float month)
     

  • Residents get six days of holiday over either Christmas or New Year’s and three other weeks of their choosing (during Elective months, Ambulatory Blocks, or Consult months).