Department of Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Training Program

Curriculum - Year 2 (and 3)

• Physician-Scientist Track
• Clinician-Educator Track

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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