Noon conference is a daily conference that is designed to cover many clinical topics in internal medicine throughout the academic year.

 

Senior residents also present scholarly reviews of clinical topics during the last months of the academic year.

 

Other conferences include:
• Journal Club. With guidance from a faculty member and the chief residents, one of the residents leads the group in a discussion of a recent prominent article in the literature.
• Morbidity and Mortality. One of the residents presents the case from a recent patient. The goal of this monthly conference is to emphasize our role in improving patient care and the quality of medical education. Radiology and Pathology may also participate in this conference, and a faculty member facilitates key learning points from the case.
• Clinical Pharmacology. These conferences include a presentation by a clinical pharmacist and a faculty member to highlight important areas of pharmacology. Recent topics have included pain management, common adverse drug reactions, anticoagulation, and immunosuppressive medications.
• Gallops. Residents from services at all the hospitals and ambulatory sites bring interesting ECGs and radiology findings from recent cases.
• SAR Talks. Each senior resident selects a topic of choice on which to give a noon conference lecture. The resident works closely with a faculty advisor. These talks range from research discussions to in-depth reviews of a topic.
• EKG. In monthly EKG rounds with one of our most esteemed cardiology attendings, interesting EKGs and case presentations are reviewed.
• Radiology. Interesting radiology cases are reviewed with one of our radiologists.
• Board Review. These monthly sessions focus on board preparation.
• Career and Development Series. Faculty members speak to housestaff on interviewing, contract negotiation, patient interaction, conflict resolution, and more.

 

Grand rounds, the Internal Medicine Department’s weekly academic activity, are attended by virtually all of our housestaff and faculty.

 

This is a topic-based presentation that highlights the science of clinical medicine with the purpose of providing high interest weekly topics that add value to the faculty and the educational experiences and understandings of our residents.

         

Chair's Conference occurs Fridays at 12 PM.  and is one of the true highlights of the week.

A resident presents an unknown to our department chair, Dr. Harvey Jay Cohen, and he works through the case with the assistance of the other residents. All residents, interns, and students attend this conference.

      

Residents participate in several different morning reports:

 

Junior and senior residents on the General Medicine service meet Monday through Thursday to discuss interesting or perplexing cases under the guidance of the Chief Resident and one of our senior faculty.  Morning report also includes the identification, discussion and critical review of literature that helps guide patient care practices.

Occurring weekly, this conference is open to all interns on inpatient rotations and serves as an opportunity to work through challenging cases in a systematic manner that focuses on differential diagnosis and management.  Intern report is chaired by the Chief Resident or one of our Hospitalists.
 

Durham Regional Hospital  Resident Report

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Bedside teaching rounds are conducted on the inpatient clinical services seven days a week.

 

We emphasize developing fundamental clinical skills, diagnostic reasoning, pathophysiology, and professionalism. Additional emphasis is placed on evidence-based medicine and on creating an environment that optimizes resident learning and patient care. 

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As part of our commitment to housestaff education, the chief residents and assistant chief residents come in every night to discuss admissions with the on-call teams.

 

This time is an opportunity to reflect on the scope of problems encountered that day, provide teaching with critical review of the literature, assist the residents in thinking about complex cases, and to help with procedures that need to be done.

 

This Duke tradition is highly regarded by everyone involved and is one of the many features that sets our program apart from other programs. 

This s eries of topics is presented during noon conferences over a six-week period at the beginning of each academic year (July through most of August). They are designed to prepare housestaff for urgent scenarios that may occur while covering patients on an inpatient service.

 

Topics range from chest pain, GI bleed, and respiratory distress to acute pain management and antibiotic choices. The lectures benefit everyone from interns to upper level residents.

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Residents at each clinic site (VA, Duke Clinic, and Duke General Internal Medicine) participate in this conference series that occurs twice a month before continuity clinic.

This three-year curriculum covers essential topics in ambulatory care medicine presented by clinic attendings and residents.

This is a six part conference series where topics key to both internal medicine and pediatrics residents are presented.

This is a quarterly conference series where topics key to both internal medicine and psychiatry residents are presented.  EM/IM: This is a quarterly series for internal medicine and emergency medicine resident discuss evidence-based approaches to care for patients as they transition from the emergency department and the general medicine floors.

This is an 18 part conference series focusing on Health Policy.
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