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 A wide spectrum of educational conferences and small group teaching sessions are offered on a daily basis. Interns will attend Morning Reports during ward and outpatient general medicine rotations, and will participate in a weekly "Evidence-Based Medicine" Journal Club.
Noon Conferences
After rounds, there is a 12:15 p.m. conference every weekday. On Mondays, the Morbidity and Mortality conference is held in collaboration with the departments of Pathology and Radiology. Medical Grand Rounds are held every Wednesday. Tuesday and Thursday are reserved for the residents' core curriculum series. "Harrison's Club," a resident-run conference for Board Review, is held on Fridays and alternates biweekly with General Medicine Mini-Cases, where the inpatient General Medicine teams discuss the most interesting cases.
Board Reviews
To prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examination, our faculty present a series of one-hour review sessions from April through June. In addition, all residents receive a complimentary copy of the Mayo Board Review textbook when it is published (on a biennial basis). Videotapes and lecture notes of the board review sessions are also available at the medical libraries.
Women in Internal Medicine
With half of the nation's medical school spots currently held by women, the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) estimates that by 2010, 30 percent of all practicing physicians will be women. For 2007-2008, over 34 percent of the applications to our program were from women and over 40 percent of 2007-2008 interns are women. Current initiatives to further enrich our community include:
The Women's Advisory Council, which is charged to:
- Enhance the recruitment, retention, and professional development of Mayo women staff, trainees, residents, research assistants, and medical students.
- Identify and address barriers to professional development and participation in Mayo's leadership structure.
- Advise institutional leadership regarding women's issues. The committee will recommend strategies to address identified problems, assist with implementation, and periodically review progress of related initiatives.
- Educate the institution regarding the above issues, especially those related to work/life balance and the work environment.
The Elizabeth Blackwell Lectureship
This annual lectureship series was established by the Department of Medicine to honor Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman physician in the United States. This lectureship honors the vision of Dr. Blackwell by recognizing the continued contributions of women in the field of medicine.
LeeAnn McCaffrey, M.D. Women in Medicine Annual Award
This is awarded for outstanding achievement to a graduating third-year female resident.
Textbooks
Residents receive an electronic set of learning objectives and a teaching syllabus at the beginning of each rotation. All residents have access to Up To Date. A collection of over 40 electronic medical texts, MD Consult, can be accessed from any of the 18,000 physician workstations throughout the medical center, or via remote access from home when connected to the Mayo network.
Teaching Opportunities
Residents are responsible for teaching both Mayo Medical Students and visiting senior medical students through bedside instruction and formal didactic lectures. Senior residents complete a teaching skills curriculum at the beginning of their supervisory rotations.
Cardiac Life Support Certification
Each resident must be certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) before starting residency. Many ACLS courses are held during June, before the start of the academic year. The ACLS recertification course also is offered every three months during the year to facilitate recertification. Mayo pays for the cost of certification and recertification. Residents also participate in periodic ACLS workshops to maintain their resuscitation skills. All residents complete additional cardiac emergency training during the cardiology rotation ("Emergency Response Team Leader Course").
Libraries
Mayo Clinic Rochester's library system has one of the largest medical collections in the world - more than 4,900 journal subscriptions, nearly 400,000 bound volumes, and several medical databases and search engines.
The main library provides study space, computers, literature searches, microfilm readers and reader-printers, translations, photocopiers, book ordering, and audiovisual services.
Reference librarians can perform literature searches, arrange interlibrary loans, and teach residents to use the computer database services that link Mayo Clinic to a global network of scientific information. Hundreds of clinical conferences are preserved on videotape each year. Residents may view these tapes at the library or check them out for use at home.
Branch libraries include two hospital libraries, a Health-Related Sciences library, and the Learning Resource Center (LRC). Textbook collections are available at multiple sites in the hospitals for reading and reference while on duty. The library provides access to a variety of Web-based texts and databases.
Computer Services
Over 18,000 computer workstations are available in nursing units, resident work areas, resident call-rooms, and in the outpatient clinics. The Internal Medicine Residents' Center for Residency Education (CORE) at Saint Marys contains 30 computers, LCD projectors and other electronic audiovisual equipment. Residents can access the computerized patient-record system, laboratory test results, and pharmacology data; to conduct literature searches; and to use the Internet and Mayo Clinic's internal electronic messaging system.
Residents at Mayo Clinic Rochester will participate in the use of a sophisticated electronic medical record system for both inpatients and outpatients. Mayo Clinic's Microcomputer Education Center provides training in the use of computers for word processing, data collection and data analysis. All residents have access to computerized intensive care units; a computerized medical record system; computerized laboratory results; computerized retrieval and review of radiologic studies; computerized literature and textbook access at each nursing station; and state-of-the-art surgery, radiology and laboratory services.
Telecommunications
Mayo Clinic's facilities in Rochester, Jacksonville and Arizona are linked via a sophisticated satellite telecommunications system, which provides video teleconferencing and data transmission. Staff can have live, interactive consultations with physicians and their patients at the other sites via TV monitors. In addition, X-rays, laboratory test results, CT scans, ECGs, angiograms and pathology slides can be transmitted between sites.
An advanced telecommunications system also is the foundation for Mayo Clinic's unique seven-digit telephone dialing and pager system. Physicians can be easily contacted for consultations or updates, thereby strengthening teamwork among consultants, fellows, residents and allied health staff at all three practice sites.
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