The Internal Medicine Residency at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk offers a variety of clinical rotations and conferences to prepare trainees for a career as an internal medicine physician.

Clinical Rotations

The Internal Medicine Residency at NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk uses a “4+1” rotation format, which allows our house staff to minimize conflicts between inpatient and ambulatory rotations and focus on the setting in which they are rotating. Residents spend four weeks on a given in-patient rotation followed by one week in the ambulatory setting.

During the ambulatory week, residents have five half-day continuity sessions. In addition, they have one half-day session in an internal medicine subspecialty and an additional half-day in a non–internal medicine subspecialty experience, such as ophthalmology, office orthopedics, gynecology, or otolaryngology. These noncontinuity subspecialty sessions change every six months, allowing residents to experience outpatient subspecialty practices that complement their primary care continuity experience.

During ambulatory weeks, residents are also given time to complete online modules and administrative tasks related to their primary care panel.

In addition, they have protected time to engage in quality improvement activities, which are overseen by our faculty and coordinate with institutional and practice goals.

Rotation Schedule PGY-1

Rotation	Weeks
Inpatient General Medicine	12
Ambulatory Medicine*	10
ICU/CCU	6
Night Float*	4-6
Neurology*	4
Quality and Safety*	2
Emergency Medicine*	2
Elective*	6-8
Vacation	4

Rotation Schedule PGY-2

Rotation	Weeks
Inpatient General Medicine*	10
Ambulatory Medicine*	10
ICU/CCU*	8
Night Float*	4-6
Elective*	12
Vacation	4

Rotation Schedule PGY-3

Rotation	Weeks
Inpatient General Medicine*	8
Ambulatory Medicine*	10
ICU/CCU*	8
Night Float*	6
Quality and Safety*	4
Medicine Consults*	2
Geriatrics and Palliative Care*	4
Elective*	6
Vacation	4

*Rotations with at least 2 days off per week.
All PGY-2 and PGY-3 rotations have at least 2 days off every week.

Internal Residency Conferences

We also offer a wide array of conferences as part of the Internal Medicine Residency.

Afternoon Conference

A residency-wide, mandatory daily conference that includes topics designed to provide a broad review of important core areas in internal medicine.

Morning/Resident Report

A twice-a-week conference that serves as the highlight of our conference series. These sessions focus upon a discussion of challenging cases, with a review of physical exam findings, clinical reasoning, pathophysiology, cost-effective use of diagnostic studies, management options, and a selective review of the literature.

Intern Report

A weekly conference that focuses on the core diagnostic skills that PGY-1 residents should develop during their initial year of training.

Board Review

A weekly conference led by faculty that focuses on utilizing Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board Certification Exam.

Grand Rounds

A department-wide weekly academic activity involving topic-based discussions by well-regarded speakers of new and important topics relevant to internal medicine.

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

A monthly department-wide conference attended by faculty and residents that focuses on processes that lead to errors and suboptimal patient care. Principles of quality improvement are reviewed and discussed.

Journal Club

A residency-wide monthly conference which engages residents in the critical appraisal of medical literature and teaches core principles of evidence-based medicine.

Tumor Board

A monthly multidisciplinary review and discussion of cancer cases, newly diagnosed or recurrent, including review of radiology, surgery, pathology, staging and discussion of treatment options.

Breast Cancer Conference

A biweekly multidisciplinary review and discussion of breast cancer cases, newly diagnosed or recurrent, including review of the pertinent radiology, biopsy results, surgical options, and treatment.

Ambulatory Conference

A weekly conference occurring during each resident’s ambulatory “plus one” week and focuses on exploring challenging outpatient cases as well as reviewing preassigned cases from the Yale Ambulatory Curriculum.

There are also multiple simulation sessions for all residents throughout the training program that work on skills such as advanced cardiac life support and resuscitation, teamwork, and patient communication.