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Curriculum

Corewell Health Farmington Hills Hospital continues a tradition of excellent didactic educational opportunities in addition to an array of clinical exposures.

Residents attend:

  • Weekly block lectures, presented by residents, fellows, and attendings.
    • These will include board reviews, sub-specialty lectures, etc.
  • Additional board review
  • Monthly journal club
  • Monthly morbidity and mortality conferences
  • Board review provided to students: MKSAP bi-weekly and UWORLD weekly
  • CODE Blue Conferences
  • MQIPS Conferences

To allow the resident to achieve their maximum potential, the resident is assigned a mentor from the attending staff, each of whom is charged with the task of meeting with the resident on a regular basis and overseeing their progress throughout their three years.

Resident call schedule

  • PGY1 - 12-13 weekend per year
  • PGY2 - 7-8 weekends per year
  • PGY3 - 4-5 weekends per year

Call shifts are 24hr shifts on the weekends and 6am-6pm on weekdays. This allows for many residents to have full weekends off. Residents also do 24hr shifts for holiday coverage.

Affiliations and outside rotations: Henry Ford Health System CVICU

Rotation schedule

Year 1

  • General internal medicine (4 months)
  • Nights (1.5 months)
  • Critical care complex (2 months)
  • Cardiology (1 month)
  • Pulmonary (1 month)
  • Women’s health ambulatory (2 weeks)
  • Emergency medicine (1 month)
  • Elective (1 month)
  • Clinic (1x weekly)

Year 2

  • General internal medicine (3 months)
  • Nights (2 weeks)
  • Critical care complex (1 month)
  • CCU (Henry Ford Hospital) (1 month)
  • Nephrology (1 month)
  • CVICU (Henry Ford Hospital Main Campus)
  • Endocrinology (1 month)
  • Infectious diseases (1 month)
  • Gastroenterology (1 month)
  • Geriatric internal medicine (2 weeks)
  • Hematology/oncology (1 month)
  • Electives (1 month)
  • Clinic (1x weekly)

Year 3

  • General internal medicine (5 months)
  • Nights (2 weeks)
  • Critical care complex (1 month)
  • Endocrinology (1 month)
  • Rheumatology (1 month)
  • Neurology (1 month)
  • Outpatient clinic (1 month)
  • Electives (1.5 months)
  • Clinic (1x weekly)