Our curriculum is an important document that defines the educational goals of our Residency Training Program and is intended to clarify the learning objectives for all inpatient and outpatient rotations. Our program requirements are based on the ACGME standards for categorical training in Infectious Disease. 

This is a document that will change over time and is developed based on the following principles:

• The curriculum was developed and updated by broad representation of faculty and residents. 
• The curriculum will define clearly the expectations of junior and senior residents on specific rotations. This is to help ensure that our residents are gradually increasing their responsibility in regard to patient care and teaching responsibilities. 
• It also reflects the expectations that medical knowledge will gradually increase at different levels and that much of that learning is self directed. It is also expected, as residents progress through the 2 year training program that their skills with practice based learning and the application and improvement or complex systems that we work in continue to improve throughout the 3 year training cycle.
• The primary goal of our curriculum is to assist in training excellent internists who cans successfully:
  • Practice quality medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient setting
  • Pursue subspecialty training
  • Develop skills as an educator
  • Participate in research

It is our hope that our residents will continually exhibit intellectual curiosity and that they will bring that style of practice to their patient care. This is best accomplished by being well trained in practice based training. 

It is difficult to convey in a curriculum our very high standard of professionalism and ethical conduct that we model and expect from all of our residents. 

Graduate medical education by nature involves a great deal or self directed learning. Our hope is that the curriculum will serve as a helpful template to guide learning and clinical maturation throughout all years of training. 

Our electronic evaluation system is intended to reflect on a timely basis fair evaluations of the residents' performances. MedHub also allows us to clearly track development in all of the 6 core competencies. Residents are expected to meet minimum standards in the 6 core competencies and are strongly encouraged to develop excellence in all of these. 

Those 6 core competencies include:

1. Patient Care
2. Medical Knowledge
3. Interpersonal and Communication Skills
4. Professionalism
5. Practice based learning
6. Systems based learning

It is out expectation that our residents will read Rotation Specific Curricula prior to all rotations. It is also our ongoing intent to develop a post test after specific rotations in order to test specific areas of knowledge. 

Critical Care Track

The Infectious Disease Fellowship program offers an opportunity for a Fellow in good standing to transition into a Critical Care track upon completion of their Infectious Disease fellowship program. 

Throughout the course of the ID Program, a fellow selected for the Critical Care track will engage with the Critical Care team and participate in Critical Care conferences and internal rotation/s. A minimum of a one month Critical Care internal elective will be completed during the PGY5 ID Fellowship year. 

Please refer to the Rotation Specific Curricula below for further detail. 

Transitions of Care

Transistions of care, if not given due diligence, are associated with adverse events and/or near misses. It is our responsibility as clinicians to ensure that patient care/safety is always given the highest priority. It is, thus, imperative that measures are taken by EPO to ensure that signouts and/or handoffs are performed such that patient safety is assured and the rules of the ACGME (as outlined below) are followed.

• Signouts/Handoffs Policy

Rotation Specific Curricula

House staff and teaching attendings are required to review the curriculum at the start of each rotation. E*Value, our web-based system, will automatically send an email with an attachment containing the appropriate curriculum documents a few days prior to the start of each rotation.

Inpatient Rotations

• Cardiology Inpatient (ACS)
• General Medicine Inpatient Rotation
• Hematology/Oncology Inpatient Service
• Medical Admitting Resident/Intern University Hospital
• Medical Admission/Transfer Policy University Hospital
• Medical Admitting Resident VA
• Medicine Consult Service
• Night Float Curriculum University Hospital
• Night Float Curriculum VA
• Night Float VA survival guide
• Palliative Care Service
• VA Procedure Rotation

ICU Rotations

• Critical Care Medicine Curriculum University Hospital
• Critical Care ICU Crouse
• Critical Care ICU Night Crouse
• Critical Care ICU VA

Elective Rotations

• Cardiology Consult
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology Consult
• Gastroenterology Consult
• Geriatrics
• Infectious Disease Consult
• Nephrology Consultation Team
• Neurology Elective
• Pulmonary Consult Team
• Rheumatology Consult Team

Outpatient Rotations

• Endocrinology Outpatient
• Emergency Department Rotation Crouse Hospital
• Gastroenterology Outpatient
• General Internal Medicine Ambulatory Continuity Clinic
• Hematology/Oncology Outpatient Rotation
• Infectious Disease Outpatient
• Geriatrics Outpatient
• VA Dermatology
• Crouse Hospital Emergency Medicine Curriculum
• VA PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)
• Nephrology Outpatient
• Wound Care