Internal Medicine - Curriculum and Research
Curriculum
Didactics
| Name | Frequency | Description |
| Morning Report | 3/week | Conducted by chief resident or a key faculty member, interesting cases or "bread-and-butter" admissions from overnight are presented to discuss clinical presentations, differential diagnoses, appropriate interventions and therapeutics. |
| Teaching Rounds | 3 - 5 / week | Each inpatient team lead by one faculty member spend 1.5 to 2 hours discuss patients on the service. Emphasis is placed on bed side teaching. |
| Grand Rounds | 2/week | |
| Mortality chart review | 1/month | Informal M&M in which resident's present patients from the teaching services with emphasis on patient management and diagnosis. |
| Morbidity & Mortality | 1 / month | Formal M&M presented by senior level residents at Grand Rounds. |
| Continuity clinic lecture | daily in clinic | Each week, residents are provided reading material addressing multiple aspects of outpatient / ambulatory care medicine which include non-medicine subject matters such as ethics, billing, coding, running a practice, etc. Prior to each clinic, the reading material is discussed with a key faculty member(s) who staff the afternoon clinics. |
| Core curriculum lectures | 2/week | The core curriculum is given as a 2 to 3 hour lecture block each Friday. All disciplines within the field of medicine are presented by community subspecialists in order to prepare our residents for board certification in internal medicine. At the completion each month, the chief resident administers a written examination. |
| Journal club | 1 / month | Upper level residents select peer-reviewed journal articles that are critically reviewed by house staff. |
| Procedure skills lab | 2/year | This two to three hour session gives residents the opportunity to hone procedure skills such as intubations, thoracentesis, central access, etc. In addition, mock codes are performed. |
| Written examination and review | 1 / month | The exam is given to residents and covers the specialty content of the rotation the resident is on. |
Curriculum
Click here for the Required Electives by PGY Level.
Click here for the Academic Schedules.
Research
Internal Medicine Research Residency Program
GRMEP and the Van Andel Institute Graduate School (VAIGS) have teamed up to provide clinical and research training to yield physicians that are exceptionally well-fit for careers as basic science and clinical research scholars. Students will earn a Ph.D. degree in molecular and cellular biology, and licensure and board eligibility in Internal Medicine. The program complies with the Research Pathway of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
If you are a student completing your medical school training who has a passion for biomedical research or translational medicine, this program is for you. You already understand the clinician’s perspective on human disease. Our innovative curriculum and programmatic flexibility will develop your research skills. We seek to recruit exceptional scholars to help advance translational research to improve human health and well-being.
Training Plan
A unique training plan will be developed for each participant based on prior research experience, time of entry into the program, and the particular clinical residency. Typically, participants will complete two years of clinical rotations (to permit licensure), followed by Ph.D. program classroom and research experiences. Clinical experiences will continue throughout the research phase, and will typically account for 20 percent of the time.
Stipend and Benefits
Stipend and benefits will match those for other residents in GRMEP programs. During clinical years, the Internal Medicine Residency Program will cover these costs; during Ph.D. training years, VAIGS will cover them.
Application Process
Students who are interested in the Internal Medicine Research Residency Program should follow the same application steps as those applying for the VAI Graduate School Ph.D. program. Application procedures and forms are available at:
http://www.vai.org/Education/GraduateSchool/MDPhD.aspx