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Our categorical training program is designed to provide a comprehensive experience in internal medicine. Residents practice in a rich training environment and are exposed to a diverse patient population in a variety of practice settings. You can customize your training by participating in a track(s) within our categorical training program: Clinician-EducatorHealth Disparities, Primary Care, POCUS, and Women's Health . Each of the tracks offer experiences within the area of interest throughout the three years of residency training. 

Inpatient shifts are scheduled at University Hospital (UH) and the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA). The three year program is structured as follows.

Categorical Program Per Year

Continuity Clinic Program Per Year

Residents will have one full day of clinic per week on non-ward months and no clinic on ward months. This allows residents to focus on their present service.

General Medicine Wards

Tinsley Harrison (UH) and VA Ward

Teams are comprised of a PGY-3, two PGY-1s, and two medical students. Residents admit patients on a Q5 cycle, with a night float (PGY-3 and PGY-1) admitting from 8pm-7am.

Subspecialty Ward

Hepatology and Oncology

Teams are comprised of 1-2 fellows, two PGY-2s and 3-4 PGY-1s. Call schedule is variable but never exceeds a Q4 cycle. PGY-1s and PGY-2s work 1-2 weeks of night float. 

MICU/CCU

Teams are comprised of one fellow, 2-3 PGY-2s/PGY-3s and 2-3 PGY-1s. Residents take call during the day until 8pm Sunday-Thursday, and night float residents take call from 8pm-8am. 

Subspecialty Consults

Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Hematology/Oncology, Pulmonary, Nephrology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology

A fellow and several residents from all levels work together to provide subspecialty consultative care under the direction of subspecialty faculty.

Ambulatory Block

Block months are rotations devoted to ambulatory training. This allows for concentrated time in ambulatory medicine without inpatient responsibilities. The resident has the opportunity to work one-on-one with an attending physician in various clinics chosen by the resident such as Gynecology, Allergy, Breast clinic, HIV clinic, Osteoporosis clinic, Dermatology clinic and various other internal medicine subspecialty clinics.

Cooper Green

All PGY-1s spend one month rotating at Cooper Green, a multispecialty facility committed to providing high quality healthcare for all residents of Jefferson County regardless of ability to pay. At our outpatient Cooper Green clinic, PGY-1s see established primary care patients who need to see a physician for an urgent issue as well as patients recently discharged from the hospital. This rotation provides focused experience learning about health disparities that continue to exist and the ways we can work to mitigate them. 

Elective

Residents can participate in elective rotations to further pursue their particular interests. These include the following: