Training Programs

Housestaff training is supervised by the medical school's Graduate Medical Education Committee and the more than 800 full-time faculty members of the School of Medicine. The ratio of full-time faculty to housestaff is more than 1:1, and a clinical staff of community physicians augments the regular faculty.

Houseofficers participate in daily rounds, discussing patient problems and arranging necessary care. Teaching rounds are led regularly by full-time faculty, and weekly chart-review sessions with housestaff are held by senior faculty.

Residents in most programs are on call an average of one out of four nights. In addition to their patient-care activities, residents also serve as active teachers. They guide the work of medical student "clerks" and first-year students and often help prepare unit visiting rounds, staff rounds, clinical-pathological conferences and other clinical and professional meetings.