University of Illinois
College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Program Policy

Subject:   Education Requirements
               
Category: Categorical Education Requirements

Scope: Program

Effective Date: 4/30/1997

Revised Date: 3/28/2006     

REC Approved: 8/25/2006

PURPOSE:To define the education requirements for program completion.

POLICY:

Residents must satisfactorily complete 36 months of full-time medical residency education.

Scholarly Activity: Residents must complete the research curriculum requirements.

Competencies: Each resident will demonstrate competence in the six core competencies- Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Practice Based Learning and Improvement, Systems Based Practice, and Professionalism.

Continuity Clinic: Residents must complete 108 weekly sessions of continuity clinic in 36 months.

Emergency Medicine: Residents must complete 4 weeks of emergency medicine in no less than 2-week blocks. No resident may do more than 3 rotations in emergency medicine over three years.

Inpatient Internal Medicine: Residents must complete at least 6 rotations in inpatient general internal medicine as an intern and a minimum of 6 additional inpatient internal medicine rotations

Critical Care: Residents complete a minimum of 3 critical care rotations in 36 months. Clinical Investigator Track residents complete a minimum of 2 rotations in critical care. No resident may complete more than 6 rotations in critical care.

Subspecialties: Rotations in each of the subspecialties of internal medicine is offered. Residents must complete a rotation in Cardiology, Pulmonary and Gastroenterology.

Geriatrics: Residents must complete the curriculum in Geriatrics.

Others Subspecialties: Residents must complete one rotation in ambulatory medicine including experience  in psychiatry, dermatology, medical ophthalmology, office gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, non-operative orthopedics, and rehabilitation medicine

Each resident must complete procedures, technical skills, testing, and other requirements as outlined in Promotion Criteria.