The general medical inpatient service is designed to enable residents to evaluate and manage patients with a broad range of medical problems in both the intensive and non-intensive care settings.

• Each team consists of a PGY-1 resident and a PGY-2 or PGY-3 resident, often with a 3rd or 4th year University of Tennessee-Memphis medical student.
   
• Residents have primary responsibility for patients in the MICU, CCU, NSICU, and SICU who have been admitted to the medical teaching service.
   
• Call is every 4th night.
  
  
• PGY-1 and 3 residents generally have one month of critical care training in addition to critical care admissions on service months.
   
• PGY-1 residents generally spend 8 months on the inpatient service, PGY-2 residents 6 months, and PGY-3 residents 4 months. While on the inpatient service, one's sample weekly schedule may look like this:

	M	T	W	Th	F	S/S
7:30 am	Work Rounds	Work Rounds	Work Rounds	Work Rounds	Work Rounds
10:30 am	Attending Rounds		Attending Rounds		Attending Rounds	Sign Out
11:00 am		Morning Report		Morning Report
12:00 to 12:30 pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12:30 to 1:30 pm	Educational Conference	Educational Conference	Educational Conference	Educational Conference
4:00 pm	Sign Out	Sign Out	Sign Out	Sign Out	Sign Out