Englewood Hospital residency takes great pride in its formal teaching sessions. 

Below are the academic conferences in which the residents are required to participate.

Ambulatory Academic Half Day: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Tuesdays)

All residents in Ambulatory blocks attend this weekly session. Here residents learn core ambulatory medicine topics in a flipped classroom style approach. This time slot also houses our Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) curriculum where residents learn to appropriately appraise journal articles, in addition to our didactic sessions for our Community Health, Patient Safety and Wellness curricula.

Medicine Grand Rounds: 8:00 – 9:00 AM (Thursdays)

A weekly conference that brings together Medicine faculty and subspecialists to hear about key topics and advancements in Internal Medicine and Internal Medicine subspecialties. Selected speakers include Englewood Hospital faculty and visiting professors from all over the country. Some other conferences held during this time are the following:

• Patient Safety Conference: This is a multidisciplinary conference presented in a “grand rounds” format. After going through our robust Patient Safety training, each PGY3 resident is responsible for performing a root-case-analysis of a patient who sustained an adverse outcome. The goal of this conference is to identify break-downs in our system and identify ways to provide safer patient care.
• Quality Improvement Conference: Our longitudinal Quality Improvement curriculum is embedded with the PGY2 Ambulatory curriculum. Throughout their Ambulatory blocks residents get dedicated time to meet with faculty advisor and work on their projects. The results of these projects are presented at the end of the academic year during our QI conferences.
• Clinical Pathological Conference: Held quarterly, this conference is presented by one of our residents in a “Grand Rounds” setting. In this conference, an interesting case with an unusual diagnosis is presented by the resident and the differential diagnoses and suggested work-up is argued by generalists, subspecialists and non-medical specialists in attendance. Residents then discuss the hospital course, including relevant radiology and pathology, reveal the diagnosis and give a discussion on the topic. It’s a wonderful opportunity faculty to role model their diagnostic approaches, but the best part is seeing which attending can guess the correct diagnosis!

Noon Conference: 12:00 – 1:00 PM (daily)

Our daily lunch-and-learn session where residents are taught core topics in General Internal Medicine and all of the subspecialties by a faculty attending or subspecialist. Our chief residents are strategic in selecting content to mirror that covered on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s certification exam. In addition to these core topics covered, we also have sessions geared toward the following:

This is our daily lunch-and-learn session where residents are taught core topics in General Internal Medicine and all of the subspecialties by a faculty attending or subspecialist. Our chief residents are strategic in selecting content to mirror that covered on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s certification exam. In addition to these core topics covered our noon conference series also includes the following faculty or resident led conferences. 

• Intern Report: Case discussion for interns focused on ensuring a standardized approach to history-taking, physical exam, formulating differential diagnosis and developing comprehensive summary statements. Here we review illness scripts for diagnoses to ensure we are on the right track with clinical reasoning. In addition, interns review practical and high yield topics such as Documentation, Workflow, EMR, and Communication Skills. This conference is moderated by our chief residents with core faculty present.
• Resident Report: This is an interactive conference for all residents geared toward discussing an interesting or unusual case with good teaching points. Residents on our teaching teams take turns presenting a brief case review with a focus on building a differential diagnosis and disease management. From our discussion, we are able to generate PICO or clinical questions to guide further learning and stimulate discussion on our resident/faculty group chat. This conference is moderated by our chief resident with support by core faculty.
• ACR Report: During the PGY3 Acute Care Resident (ACR) rotation, each PGY3 is expected to lead a noon conference on a topic pertaining to acute care of patients. The topic is chosen between the PGY3 resident and ICU or Didactic chief. The goal is to present the most useful topics when triaging a decompensating patient on the floor or the sickest patients in the ICU. This is also a great opportunity for our senior residents to step into the role of medical educator.
• Ambulatory Conference: In this monthly conference, our residents engage in case-based discussions to review core topics in ambulatory medicine. With the support of our clinic faculty, the resident presenter shares key learning points in the diagnosis and management of chronic disease. Emphasis is placed on highlighting relevant themes from psychosocial medicine and social determinants of health within these discussions. The University of Pittsburgh social medicine cases are incorporated as an additional learning tool.
• Geriatrics Conference: As a part of their Geriatrics rotation, each PGY1 resident leads a session geared towards understanding the diagnosis and management of a common geriatric syndrome. Residents are charged with incorporating the evaluation of cognitive, psychosocial, and functional elements into their presentations. The topic is selected by the PGY1 resident with guidance provided by the Geriatrics and/or core faculty.
• EKG Rounds: This is an engaging conference for all residents led by one of our Cardiologists where residents review systematic approaches to EKG reading. Time is also spent discussing a variety of EKG cases ranging from those commonly encountered on the floors to rare and unique conditions.
• Imaging Rounds: This is an interactive conference for all residents led by one of our pulmonologists or radiologist, where residents review systematic approaches to image interpretation for CXR, CT head, CT chest, CT abdomen, etc. Time is also spent discussing interesting or challenging cases.
• Board Review: Monthly sessions covering high yield topics and ABIM test-taking strategies.
• Journal Club: A monthly conference where PGY3 reviews research study design and critical appraisal of literature.
• Hospitalist Rounds: Highly engaging conference series led by the Hospitalist team utilizing evidence-based medicine to lead discussion on core inpatient-related topics. This lecture series allows residents to practice reading primary literature and broaden their understanding of biostatistics
• Infectious Disease Rounds: Weekly conference where an ID specialist sits down with the floor team residents to discuss work-up and antibiotic management for current team patients.

Specialized Conferences/Workshops

• Procedure Workshops: To ensure our trainees are tenets of performing procedures, procedure workshops are hosted throughout the year. During these sessions, residents undergo simulation training in procedures such as central line and arterial line placement, paracentesis and arthrocentesis.
• Gel Rounds: To supplement our POCUS curriculum, residents have hands-on ultrasound scanning sessions with one of our POCUS-certified hospitalists.  Each sessions follows a curricular focus and covers topics such as cardiopulmonary imaging, evaluation of a critically-ill patient and ultrasound-guided central line placement. Residents have their didactic and simulation sessions before this hands-on session so that the focus is strictly on practice and honing skills.
• Professional Development Workshops: Although many residents enter residency training with their long-term career plans in mind, many do not have a road map to ensure success.  Our professional development workshops are in place to provide overall guidance in career planning, but also focus on helping our trainees prepare for public speaking engagements and fellowship/job interviews. We have also invited back some of our alumni to serve as a resource for residents applying into various subspecialty fellowships as well as both primary care and hospital medicine jobs. These workshops have been well received and we are constantly looking for ways to add to the series.
• Breaking Bad News/Adverse Event Reporting: Having goals of care discussions, sharing an unfortunate test results or reporting adverse events are not easy tasks, even for the most seasoned attendings. To ensure our residents receive standardized training in having difficult conversations, each resident goes through simulation training in compassionate communication. As a PGY1, the focus of the session is breaking bad news. For PGY3 residents, we focus on adverse event reporting.
• Mock Code Simulation Sessions: Multidisciplinary mock codes run by our hospital’s simulation center that our residents participate in. The focus of these sessions is to further develop residents’ skills around ACLS management, being a code team leader and collaborative communication.
• Rapid Response Simulation Sessions: To prepare our residents as leaders of rapid responses, not only do our residents receive didactic training, but also, using our state-of-the-art simulation center, they participate in an interdisciplinary simulation to gain hands-on experience with the communication and collaboration to ensure our patients receive the best of care during urgent situations.  

Optional Conferences

• Oncology Grand Rounds
• Cardiac Cath Conference