Curriculum
Our educational mission is to prepare our graduates to become leaders in their respective field of practice whether it is primary care, academic or subspecialty practice, or research. Although many of our graduates have historically gone on to practice primary care, an increasing number have pursued subspecialty training or academic fellowships during the past five years. Through our well-rounded training, we are able to provide you with an excellent foundation to prepare you for any career path. As one of our graduates, you will be equipped with additional skills in leadership, teaching, and advocacy that are essential for successful future practice.
Our curriculum is evenly distributed between Internal Medicine and Pediatrics composed of 13 four-week blocks each year. Residents alternate between Internal Medicine and Pediatrics rotations every three blocks (on average). During the first year, emphasis is on the care of hospitalized patients, while providing exposure to primary care, newborn nursery, and emergency medicine. After completing a 12-month internship, Med-Peds residents take on supervisory roles in inpatient and outpatient settings identical to the responsibilities assumed by senior residents in the categorical programs. During the remaining three years of training, our residents have a balanced educational experience between general and subspecialty Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Schedule Overview
PGY-1
INTERNAL MEDICINE
General Medicine (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Med-Peds Ambulatory I (Primary Care, 2 weeks)
CCMU (2 weeks days/2 weeks night)
Cardiology (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Hematology/Oncology (Inpatient, 2 weeks)
GI/Liver (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Elective (2-6 weeks)
2-week Vacation
PEDIATRICS
Inpatient Pediatrics (6 wks days/2 wks night)
Med-Peds Ambulatory 2 (Primary Care, 2 weeks)
Cardiology (Inpatient, 2 weeks)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
Newborn Nursery (2 weeks)
2-week Vacation
Elective (2-6 weeks)
PGY-2
INTERNAL MEDICINE
General Medicine (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
Geriatrics (Outpatient, 2 weeks)
Hospitalist (Inpatient, two 2 week blocks)
IM Ambulatory (Primary Care, 4 weeks)
Elective (4-8 weeks)
2-week Vacation
PEDIATRICS
Behavioral/Developmental Pediatrics (4 weeks)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
General Inpatient Night Team (2 weeks)
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
Med-Peds Ambulatory II (MSK) (3 weeks)
Med-Peds Community Health (3 weeks)
Hematology-Oncology (Inpatient, 2 weeks)
Two 1-week Vacations
Newborn Nursery (2 weeks)
Elective (2-6 weeks)
PGY-3
INTERNAL MEDICINE
General Medicine (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
CCMU (4 weeks days)
General Medicine Night Team (2 weeks)
Med-Peds Ambulatory III (Health Disparities, 4 weeks)
2-week Vacation
Elective (8-12 weeks)
PEDIATRICS
General Pediatrics (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
General Inpatient Night Team (2 weeks)
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (4 weeks)
Two 1-week Vacations
Elective (10-14 weeks)
PGY-4
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Cardiology (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
General Medicine (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
CCMU-NT (2 weeks)
Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
IM Ambulatory (Primary Care, 4 weeks)
Elective (6-10 weeks)
2-week Vacation
PEDIATRICS
General Pediatrics (Inpatient, 4 weeks)
Adolescent Medicine (Outpatient, 4 weeks)
Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2 weeks)
Two 1-week Vacations
Elective (12-16 weeks)
Conferences
Both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics hosts daily conferences that range from classic morning report case-based presentations to didactics from our top faculty and educators. These conferences emphasize more than just medical knowledge and encompass domains including diversity, medical education, patient safety, quality improvement, and more!
Each block, we hold an afternoon Med-Peds conference. This space offers an opportunity for our residents to learn together in a relaxed setting. Our conferences include a mix of resident and faculty-lead sessions covering a broad range of areas including clinical case presentations, ambulatory care, hospital-based care, hands-on simulation, career development, diversity, social justice, and well-being to name a few.
Unique Training Opportunities
Several of our residents also participate in additional extracurricular training opportunities throughout their time here. These programs are GME wide, meaning not Med-Peds or IM or Peds specific, but rather opportunities for all house officers across the institution to engage in these experiences to learn together and from each other. Our residents are well represented in these opportunities.
COMET: Community of Medical Educators in Training
COMET is a year-long training program for those interested in careers in medical education. The program has two main parts:
Create and introduce residents to a community within medical education. It is a chance to see what is going on across the university from a medical education standpoint and learn from initiatives that other residents are working on.
Teach you about medical education from the lens of building a curriculum to meet an educational need. Residents complete a medical education related project as part of doing this program.
Requests for additional information and questions can be directed to umich.comet@gmail.com
HASP: Healthcare Administration Scholars Program
HASP is a 2-year program about healthcare administration. It’s a lecture series to learn about the broad array of things that are involved in running a healthcare organization. Each scholar also does a capstone project which is often the scholarly project they are working on for other things, but applying some of the things they learn in HASP to their project
HESP: Health Equity Scholars Program
HESP is a year-long program to educate about health equity and participate in an intervention to address an issue about health equity through a quality improvement lens. Scholars get didactic education and are divided into multidisciplinary groups to identify and work on a project related to health equity.
HOQSC: House Office Quality and Safety Council
The HOQSC is a group that is open to any house officer interested in patient safety and quality improvement (PSQI). The group meets monthly to learn about topics in PSQI and hear about PSQI initiatives across the institution. They also review patient safety event reports submitted by house officers to discuss and brainstorm ways to address the safety issue and feed that back to leaders in the organization. The institution really values resident input so it’s a cool group to see how the resident voice can make changes in PSQI.
Residents and Fellows for Global Healthy Equity
Residents and Fellows for Global Healthy Equity runs a monthly speaker series on various topics such as careers in global health, social determinants of health, how to practice global health locally, and many more. It includes a lot of local speakers who are doing cool work in the global health and equity space, but also with the advent of zoom have been able to bring in speakers from elsewhere. They offer a certificate program for those who are more deeply engaged in the group and offer support for those interested in completing an away rotation.
Global Health Research Certificate Program
The Global Health Research Certificate Program is intended to help faculty, fellows, and residents incorporate global health into their research portfolios, creating a foundation for meaningful collaborative relationships and research in the global health setting, and ultimately paving the way to successfully compete for extramural funding for global health research. Through a combination of mentorship and monthly seminar events, participants will gain the tools to develop their own research activities abroad, including the skills to seek extramural funding for global health projects.