These daily interactive Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP)-based study sessions are conducted by the program leadership throughout the year.

Noon Report

Noon report at RWJ and at UMCP is held four times a week at both hospitals. Discussion of cases focuses on clinical reasoning, directed differential diagnoses generation, and management. The schedule includes monthly specialty conferences in Oncology and Cardiology as well as Clinical Pathophysiology conferences and Morbidity/Mortality conferences.

Night Float Rounds

Bedside teaching rounds run by a member of the program leadership are held with the night float residents and interns to discuss cases admitted overnight.

Teaching Rounds

Daily bedside attending rounds are conducted with the entire team, where the art of history taking and the physical exam are further refined. The challenges of clinical management, patient outcomes, and a systems based approach to patient care delivery are discussed.

Noon Conference

Noon Conferences are held four- times a week and cover a wide array of general internal medicine and subspecialty topics which constitute our Science of Medicine. In July and August of each academic year, the noon conferences primarily consist of an Emergency Lecture Series. This lecture series discusses the basic management of clinical emergencies that new interns are likely to encounter on the wards, as well as practical skills sessions reviewing basic procedural skills. Noon conference is attended by all residents and interns at each site (except those in the ICU).

Other Educational Conferences

Grand Rounds

With a mix of both external and local experts, weekly Grand Rounds are conducted at all sites and cover a variety of topics in both general internal medicine as well as subspecialties.

Journal Club

During this weekly conference at RWJUH, residents select and critically appraise articles published in major medical journals. This conference, which is directed by the General Internal Medicine Division, emphasizes in-depth review of journal articles, the practical application of statistical methods, and presentation skills. Opportunities like this, as well as the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Course provide residents with the tools to apply EBM principles to daily patient care.

Critical Care Journal Club

The Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division oversees a monthly conference at UMCP in which a resident presents a seminal paper in critical care medicine. Such a conference improves the rational care of critically ill medical patients.

Board Review Course

In addition to daily board review, an intensive six day board review course is offered in May of each year for all graduating residents

Subspecialty Conferences

Various conferences, research meetings, and journal clubs are sponsored by our subspecialty divisions and are available to interested residents.