Internal Medicine

The internal medicine faculty is comprised of full-time and part-time on site attending physicians as well as a large cadre of private practitioners. The division is responsible for the vast majority of the general medical bedside teaching for both residents and students. The attending of record for each patient reviews the daily care with the resident assigned to the case, which provides the necessary supervision required to render high quality patient care.

The teaching venues on our general medical floors include a 30-45 minute morning report, a one hour attending rounds and a 30-minute sign-out report. Each of these academic settings has its own design and mission for teaching. During these meetings, residents and students present their patient cases and are encouraged to lead the discussion. A review of relevant literature is also accomplished at these times.

Residents on the general medical service learn how to effectively care for a patient from the initial acute phase of the patient's admission all the way through the discharge process. Besides gaining a wealth of clinical knowledge, the residents are also taught the proper utilization of resources, the creation of a discharge summary, the correct writing of the patient's discharge summary and how to function as a member of the treatment team.

A student elective is available for SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn students only.

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