At Deaconess, your education will be enhanced by a wide range of learning experiences - from daily teaching rounds to subspecialty conferences and visiting professor lectures. Your confidence will grow from the interaction and guidance you will receive from our attending physicians and Internal Medicine and Family Medicine senior residents.

During your residency you will participate in:

Attending Work Rounds
Attending work rounds are held daily by board-certified, specialty trained faculty. These discussions focus on patient management skills.

Teaching Report
Morning teaching sessions for the medicine services take place twice weekly for one and a half hours. The full-time faculty lead these case-based teaching sessions. All levels of residents and medical students participate in these practical discussions, topics range from differential diagnosis, therapeutic plan, controversies and ethical dilemmas.

CME Conferences
Daily educational conferences occur throughout the year. The noon hour lectures include: medicine subspecialty, ambulatory medicine, ethics, CPC (clinicopathologic correlation), M&M (morbidity and mortality), EKG, Grand Rounds and Journal Club. An Acute Care Lecture Series is held throughout the summer months for all new housestaff.

Visiting Professor Lectures
Throughout the year, visiting professors from around the country participate in resident-oriented seminars in the morning followed by a noon grand rounds lecture. The seminars are sit down sessions attended by only the residents, students and full-time faculty allowing for a very relaxed exchange of ideas and information between a national expert in his or her field and residents. In fact, we typically hear from our guest speakers that they have much more fun teaching this way than in the standard lecture format.

A resident-only ACLs course is provided during orientation. This one-and-a-half day session includes teaching stations and evaluation. The course is designed to increase the new resident's competence (and confidence) in handling emergent situations.