Training

• Sample Yearly Schedule 
• Inpatient
• 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 - 6 months
• Geriatrics - 1 month
• Neurology - 1 month
• Emergency Medicine - 1 month
• Critical Care - 1 month (no overnight call)
• Hematology/Oncology - 1 month
• Ambulatory - 1 month
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

YEAR TWO

• Inpatient General Medicine - 4.5 months
• Night Float - 1.5 months
• Nephrology - 1 month
• Critical Care - 1 month (no overnight call)
• Rheumatology - 1 month
• Endocrinology - 1 month
• Elective - 1 month
• Gastroenterology - 1 month
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

YEAR THREE

• Inpatient General Medicine - 3 months
• Night Float - 1 month
• Cardiology - 1 month
• Pulmonary Diseases - 1 month
• Infectious Diseases - 1 month
• Elective - 1 month
• Research - 1 month
• Primary Care (including Dermatology, Addiction Medicine, Ophthalmology) - 2 months
• Critical Care - 1 month (no overnight call)
• Vacation - 4 Weeks

Inpatient Service
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. There is no overnight call during the inpatient rotation for PGY-1 and on average 3 overnight calls for PGY-2/3 residents.

Night Float
The night float rotation was designed to provide each resident with the experience of admitting patients during night time hours, as well as managing in-hospital needs and emergencies of his or her colleagues’ patients during the night.  Night float consists of one PGY-2 or 3 residents. Effective transition of care is a point of emphasis on the night float rotation.

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 with guidance from 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
• Infectious Diseases
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Hematology
• Oncology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Geriatrics
• Gastroenterology
• Pulmonary
• Rheumatology
• Dermatology
• Ambulatory Medicine