Department of Internal Medicine - Rheumatology Training Program
Curriculum - Year 2 (and 3)
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
- 4 half-day/week clinic
- 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
- Develop Teaching portfolio
- 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
- Case conference - weekly
- Evaluation semi-annually
