Curriculum
- Specialized Pathways
- Inpatient Rotations
- Ambulatory Rotations
- Sample Schedules
- Educational Conferences
- Global Medicine
Inpatient Rotations
Inpatient rotations take place at one of our 3 hospital sites: UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and UC San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla.
UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest
Ward rotations
- Five daytime teams rotate in a call cycle
- Dedicated non-teach service that functions as an overflow service
- Team members: 1 hospitalist attending, 1 resident, 2 interns, and 1–3 third- or fourth-year medical students
- Night-float system:
- 1 cross-cover intern and 1 intern dedicated to night admissions
- 1 senior resident assists with admissions and supports cross-cover
- 1 admitting nocturnist who staffs all overnight admissions
Medical ICU (MICU) Rotation
- Closed ICU caring for critically ill patients
- MICU team: 4 residents, 4 interns, 1 critical care fellow, and 1 attending
- Residents learn to manage vasoactive drips, mechanical ventilation, and multiorgan failure and perform procedures
- Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts
- Team members respond to all Code Blue situations called in the hospital
VA San Diego Healthcare System
Ward rotations
- Five daytime teams rotate in a call cycle
- Dedicated non-teach service that functions as an overflow service
- Team members: 1 hospitalist attending, 1 resident, 2 interns, and 1–3 third- or fourth-year medical students
- Night-float system:
- 1 cross-cover intern and 1 intern dedicated to night admissions
- 1 senior resident assists with admissions and supports cross-cover
- 1 admitting nocturnist who staffs all overnight admissions
VA San Diego ICU/CCU (VICU) rotation
- Combined inpatient cardiology and pulmonary & critical care service
- VICU team: 4 residents, 2 interns, 1 critical care fellow, 1 cardiology fellow, 1 pulmonary and critical care attending, and 1 cardiology attending
- Residents learn the fundamentals of pulmonary and critical care medicine and inpatient and critical care cardiology
- Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts for senior residents. Interns will not take 28-hour call
- Team members respond to all Code Blue situations called in the hospital
UC San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla
Ward rotations
- Internal medicine service at Jacobs Medical Center for senior residents
- Residents work one-on-one with an academic hospitalist attending
- "Admitter -rounder" system:
- Dedicated admissions team with a resident and physician extenders
- Several "rounder" teams with dedicated clinical foci: solid tumor oncology, cystic fibrosis, palliation
Inpatient Cardiology/CCU rotation at Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (CVC)
- Cares for all inpatient cardiology and ICU-level cardiology patients at the CVC
- CVC team: 4 residents, 4 interns, 1 fellow, and 1 attending
- Residents manage a variety of complex cardiac pathology, including acute coronary syndrome, complex arrhythmias, valvular disorders, and percutaneous interventions
- Residents work closely with dedicated advanced heart failure, interventional cardiology, and electrophysiology teams
- Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts
Inpatient Elective Rotations
At each of our 3 hospital sites, subspecialty inpatient and consultative rotations expose residents to advanced endoscopy, mechanical assist devices, post-transplant infectious diseases, advanced pulmonary hypertension, and solid tumor and hematologic malignancy care, among other topics.
Available elective consultation services include:
- Cardiology
- Advanced heart failure and mechanical assist devices
- Gastroenterology and hepatology
- Hematology/Oncology
- Bone marrow transplantation
- General, hematology/oncology, and transplant-related infectious diseases
- HIV/AIDS
- General and transplant nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurocritical care
- Palliative Care
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Pulmonary and critical care
- Pulmonary hypertension (including CTEPH)
- Toxicology