Department of Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Training Program

Curriculum - Year 2 (and 3)

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Physician-Scientist Track

• Outpatient clinic
  • 1-2 half-days/week continuity clinic
• Research (including courses: basic science, immunology, molecular biology, etc)
  • Patient-related research may involve MS in epidemiology and other courses; this is negotiable with the program director
• Vacation - 3 weeks (15 working days)
• Conferences
  • Case conference - weekly
  • Research conference/Journal Club/ Fellows conference - weekly
  • ACR conference (1 week in second year)
  • Rheumatology Symposium (1 day/year)
  • Rheumatology Textbook Chapter Review - monthly
  • Board Question Review - monthly
• Evaluations semi-annually

Clinician-Educator Track (optional 3 rd year - appointed as associate)

• Outpatient Clinic
  • 4 half-day/week clinic
    • Monday AM - Continuity clinic with Staff (to be arranged)
    • Thursday AM - VA clinic
    • Thursday PM - Continuity clinic with Staff (to be arranged)
    • Friday AM - VA Continuity clinic
  • Attendance at other regular clinics is encouraged if not involved in scholarly activity
• Consults (inpatient and outpatient) - 4 weeks
• Teaching/Scholarly Activity
  • Develop Teaching portfolio
    • Teach 2 AM lectures/month
    • Teach 1 resident conference/year
    • Develop 1 (one-hour) lecture per year
    • Other rheumatology lectures as available
  • Attend 2 OCRME teaching-related conferences/year (atendance at others is strongly encouraged)
    
    One of the following: Participation in ongoing clinical or educational research; development of new teaching techniques or curricula; 2 articles (1 case report and 1 in-depth subject review) suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal
• Conferences
  • Case conference - weekly
    Research conference/Journal Club/ Fellows conference - weekly
    ACR conference (1 week) - if research is presented
    Rheumatology Symposium (1 day/year)
    Rheumatology Textbook Chapter Review - monthly
    Board Question Review - monthly
• Evaluation semi-annually

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