Curriculum

This one-year program offers the same level of autonomy for patient care and the same clinical teaching given to categorical residents.

For all services at Mayo Clinic, there are no private patients or private attendings. All patients are cared for by intern-resident teams and a single attending physician.

Rotation Schedule

The curriculum provides a strong internal medicine experience coupled with specialty-specific requirements and many elective opportunities. Half of the intern year is on inpatient rotations.

The following is a typical rotation schedule for a preliminary medicine intern:

Rotation	Length	Comments
Inpatient General Medicine	4 months	All residents
Inpatient Cardiology	1 month	All residents
Critical Care	1 month	All residents
Emergency Medicine	1 month	All residents
Ambulatory Medicine	1 month	Not required for Anesthesiology or Dermatology
Preoperative Clinic	1 month	Required only for Anesthesiology
Infectious Disease	1 month	Required only for Dermatology
Plastic Surgery	1 month	Required only for Dermatology
Rheumatology	1 month	Required only for Dermatology
Resident’s Matched Advanced Specialty (Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Neurology Radiology)	1-2 months	Specialty-specific

Didactic Training

The didactic portion of our program includes:

• Core Curriculum Conferences
• Morbidity and Mortality Conferences
• Morning Report
• Medical Grand Rounds
• Evidence Based Medicine Journal Club
• Quality Training (Mayo Quality Academy Bronze Certification)
• Research Skill Lectures

Research Training

There are no research requirements and expectations for this one-year residency. However, all the resources of our well-developed resident scholarship program are available to the preliminary interns just as to the categorical interns, including sponsored travel to present scholarly work at national society meetings.

Our residency offers a unique PGY-1 academic mentoring program that creates opportunities and connections for future career success. Projects can include both traditional academic scholarship and quality/safety innovations - tailored to individual resident goals.

Call Frequency

Interns enrolled in this program will be restricted to the ACGME 16-hour duty limitation.

Teaching Opportunities

Residents will have the opportunity to teach Mayo medical students as well as visiting medical students.

Conferences

The didactic portion of program includes:

• Core Curriculum Conferences
• Morbidity and Mortality Conferences
• Primary Care Conferences
• Grand Rounds
• Clinical Decision Making Journal Club
• Board Review
• Systems-based Practice and Quality Improvement Conferences
• Morning Report (Inpatient and Outpatient)
• Evidence-Based Medicine Didactic Conferences

A comprehensive, didactic core curriculum addresses both inpatient and outpatient medicine. During PGY-1, the weekly core curriculum covers basic topics in internal medicine. These general core lectures are supplemented by a lecture series in each subspecialty service. Food is provided for residents, and conferences.

Faculty will teach basic interviewing and physical examination skills to residents during the first year of residency using standardized patients and teaching videos in the integrated three-Mayo campus Simulation Center. Residents will also learn in-depth clinical skills as part of each specialty curriculum. Workshops in procedural skills are provided during orientation and on specialty and ICU rotations.

Evaluation

To ensure you gain proficiency and develop the corresponding technical skills, your performance is monitored throughout this program. You are formally evaluated by your supervising faculty member following the completion of each clinical rotation; and then you meet with an associate program director to review these evaluations. In addition, you regularly evaluate the faculty to ensure your educational goals are being met.

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