Didactic Schedule

Educational Experience

The structure and content of our educational program is to support the development of knowledgeable, skillful physicians who provide compassionate care. We aim to prepare our graduating residents to become competent, well-rounded, and proficient clinicians who focus on community health. In addition, our diverse curriculum and individualized training prepare residents well for any autonomous practice in Internal Medicine, including a career in Academic Medicine.

We provide a broad range of structured didactic activities, including:

• Morning Report, Monday and Tuesday, 7AM-8AM. The primary focus of these educational sessions is to teach medical students and interns basic patient management skills. Morning Reports are run by IM seniors and fellows with the IM core faculty’s supervision and active participation.
• IM specific didactics, every Thursday, 1PM-4:30 PM**
• Congdon Lecture Series – 2nd Wednesday of each month. The Congdon Lecture Series brings 6 certified physicians to speak on various topics each month. This educational opportunity is currently being held virtually.
• MSU Graduate Medical Education Alliance (GME Alliance) provides educational programs for Internal Medicine residents. Full or a half day SCS conferences are held on Thursdays, every 6 weeks (on average). IM regular didactics are cancelled these days.
• PGY 1 Step 3 Prep – Monday, 4:30PM-5:30 PM, August-January
• PGY 3 Board Review – Monday, 2:30PM-5:30 PM, January-June
• One week of PGY 3 intense Board Review in June
• FCCS (Fundamentals of Critical Care Skills) for PGY 1
• Central line insertion workshop
• High Reliability Organization education
• Research Rounds
• Tumor Board
• Medicine in a minute (continuity clinic)
• Dermatology Case (continuity clinic)
• Primary Care didactics (continuity clinic)

**IM specific didactics are scheduled every Thursday afternoon from 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM. This is a protected educational time. The IM core faculty is always present and actively participating in these educational sessions. Lectures and workshops are interactive and led either by the faculty, residents or fellows. Residents’ engagement is enhanced by introducing different formats of presentations (ie: Jeopardy, gaming) and by organizing smaller, level specific learning activities.

The core of the IM Thursday didactics consists of:

• Weekly MKSAP quizzes
• MKSAP board style questions
• Morbidity and Mortality conference
• Journal Club
• Journal Update
• EBM article review
• Guidelines review
• Lectures by invited speakers from IM subspecialties
• EKG reviews
• Pharmacy Lectures
• Radiology rounds

Other components of education conducted during didactics by the faculty, include:

• POCUS curriculum
• Pain Management Curriculum
• Value Care Curriculum
• LGBTQ curriculum
• Behavioral Medicine Lectures
• Cultural Competence Curriculum
• Quality and Safety education
• Practice Management lectures

Schedules for specific residents led presentations are done by the chief resident and distributed at the beginning of the academic year via email.