Curriculum

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Curriculum

The structured three-year program includes both required and elective rotations, which ensure consistency of training while allowing for individual growth in all areas of their interests and weaknesses. Each resident’s training time is allocated to meet the American Board of Internal Medicine requirements over the thirty-six-month program.  Bolded rotations allow for up to 5 days of vacation from these rotations with a maximum of 16 days of PTO and 5 sick days each academic year. Rotations in bold are considered Jeopardy rotations.  Jeopardy rotations come into play when there is an increased need for coverage on the service or shortages caused by resident illness.

Cardio – Recognized by Watson Health as one of the nation’s top 50 cardiovascular hospitals and fully accredited as a chest pain center, our program employs a multidisciplinary approach to complex cardiac conditions. We offer extensive outpatient and inpatient experiences, exposing students to a range of diverse cases. Additionally, our cardiac cath lab and TAVR clinic (Trans-aortic Valve Replacement) provide valuable insights into various procedures.

GI – Our program offers a comprehensive and clinically focused curriculum that encompasses all areas of gastroenterology. We cover topics such as gastrointestinal physiology, pathology, pathophysiology, imaging, and diagnostic and therapeutic techniques including capsule endoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for pancreaticobiliary disorders. Additionally, we provide education on gastrointestinal motility, hepatology, and post-treatment follow-up.

Our program also focuses on improving education areas such as emergency pulmonary medicine, post-acute care, including long-term acute care (LTACH) and transitional care.

Longitudinal Curriculum

Continuity Clinic (across the continuum of residency)
Residents will spend time each week throughout the residency, seeing patients in one of our continuity clinics. Residents spend at least one (1) half day of clinic each week during most rotations.

Didactics (across the continuum of residency)

Our program offers a robust didactic curriculum with a noon conference held every Thursday. All conferences are recorded and available for later viewing. These conferences are considered protected education time. During this protected education time, residents are exposed to a huge variety of topics using various learning formats facilitated by our faculty with main emphasis on improving understanding and abilities related to every aspect of healthcare delivery.

Prime Shared Lectures:

We have weekly shared lectures for all prime health care institutions across the state during didactics sessions. Broad variety of topics in addition to academics, like mental health, nutrition, physician and patient safety, ethics are covered during these lectures.

Journal Club:

Residents review and present evidence based medicine with faculty guidance to gain skills in critical appraisal of the literature and clinical application.

Board Review:

Chief resident and resident lead conference to review MKSAP questions to prepare for the certifying exam from the ABIM.

Chief Resident Case Conference:

Our chief residents lead an interactive discussion of a recent case from one of our inpatient services.

Subspecialty Core Conference:

Led by our faculty, these interactive sessions cover internal medicine topics, including Cardiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, GI, Heme-Onc, Nephrology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Rheumatology, Hospital Medicine, Neurology, and Palliative Care.

Weekly Morning Reports:

We have a case-based discussion, serving as an opportunity for residents, attending physicians, and others to meet, present, and learn from novel or routine clinical cases.

Orientation

We provide a multidisciplinary well-rounded orientation which includes time at an off-campus simulation lab and an outpatient clinic evaluation. This prepares you for procedures and clinical skills that are required during residency.

TRAINING LOCATIONS:

 Shasta Community Health Clinic

 Dr. Than T. Aung’s – Internal Medicine and primary care clinic

 Redding Outpatient Clinic – VA

 Vibra Hospital of Northern California – long-term acute care and transitional care unit

 Shasta Regional Medical Group  – Redding & Anderson