The Department of Medicine Residency Council is a peer-selected group of residents consisting of four interns, four junior assistant residents (JARs), four senior assistant residents (SARs), three medicine/pediatrics residents, and one medicine/psychiatry resident.
The council’s responsibilities include:
Serving as a voice for housestaff and to address, facilitate, and prioritize concerns and desires of the housestaff
Providing a forum for open communication between the administration and housestaff
Ensuring housestaff involvement in the continued strengthening and development of the Duke Internal Medicine residency programs and the department of Internal Medicine
Fostering in all aspects (including empathy, knowledge, community service) the growth and development of individual physicians in training in the Department of Medicine residency training programs.