Training

• Sample Yearly Schedule
• Inpatient & Critical Care Medicine
• Ambulatory
• Subspeciality

Sample Yearly Schedule
UT-Baptist residents receive their training in a variety of clinical and educational settings. Typical schedules for respective PGY-1, PGY-2, and PGY-3 years may look something like this:

YEAR ONE

• Inpatient General Medicine - 32 Weeks
• Geriatrics - 4 Weeks
• Neurology - 4 Weeks
• Emergency Medicine - 4 Weeks
• Critical Care - 4 Weeks
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

YEAR TWO

• Inpatient General Medicine - 24 Weeks
• Nephrology - 4 Weeks
• Rheumatology - 4 Weeks
• Hematology/Oncology - 4 Weeks
• Endocrinology - 4 Weeks
• Elective - 4 Weeks
• Gastroenterology - 4 Weeks
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

YEAR THREE

• Inpatient General Medicine - 16 Weeks
• Cardiology - 4 Weeks
• Pulmonary Diseases - 4 Weeks
• Infectious Diseases - 4 Weeks
• Ambulatory - 4 Weeks
• Experience Specialize Clinics - 8 Weeks
• Critical Care - 4 Weeks
• Elective - 4 Weeks
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

Inpatient & Critical Care Medicine
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:

Ambulatory
Each resident has a panel of patients that he/she follows throughout the residency program. The resident spends one half day per week in the clinic precepted by one of the full time faculty. The residents learn under the guidance of an experienced internist.

The ambulatory experience also incorporates the provision of health care services to indigent patients. Most notably, the Baptist/UT Medical Clinic is a Bridges to Care provider. Residents also have an opportunity to rotate at both the Siloam Family Health Center and the Faith Family Clinic.

In the interest of systems-based practice, PGY-3 residents are also afforded a 4-week Ambulatory block, focusing entirely on coding, EMR, medicolegal issues, and other business aspects of internal medicine.

Subspecialty
Subspecialty rotations are interspersed between inpatient medicine months and exist to further each resident's clinical competency as applied to each subspecialty. During these blocks, residents have no on-call or weekend responsibilities. Below is listed each subspecialty rotation required.

• Cardiology
• Critical Care II
• Subspecialty Clinics
• Infectious Diseases
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Hematology
• Oncology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Geriatrics
• Gastroenterology
• Pulmonary
• Rheumatology
• Dermatology
• Ambulatory Medicine