We rotate on a 6 + 2 schedule meaning the categorical residents have two weeks of ambulatory every six weeks, during which time they have continuity clinic sessions, and outpatient curricular seminars and didactics.
Postgraduate Year One:
Intern year is primarily dedicated to the inpatient experience at both the Moses and Weiler campus at Montefiore. Here under the supervision of senior residents and attendings, interns serve as the primary clinician. The three inpatient floors are geographic and offer a unique learning environment and patient population for interns to manage both a variety of common and complex diseases.
In addition to the inpatient experience, intern year consists of a variety of outpatient experiences, including your continuity clinic and ambulatory curriculum. It is a rich and dynamic curriculum encompassing a wide range of arenas that are all critical to ambulatory care, including biomedical, behavioral, social, and epidemiologic elements that will build upon each year.
Interns will also spend a month in our Cardiac Care Unit (CCU), Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and in the emergency department. During all of these rotations you are given autonomy to make decisions and use your clinical reasoning skills with appropriate supervision.
In addition to learning clinical management skills, interns begin to develop as teachers of third and fourth year medical students.
| Rotation |
Amount of Time per Year |
| General Medicine Wards (including night medicine) |
5 months |
| Medical Intensive Care Unit |
2 weeks |
| Coronary Care Unit |
1 month |
| Emergency Medicine |
2 weeks |
| Ambulatory Medicine |
3 months |
| Subspecialty Electives |
1 month |
| Vacation |
1 month |
Postgraduate Year Two:
Near the end of your PGY1 year each intern will be able to opt into a choice of tracks (hospital medicine, global health, clinician educator, or intensified research) and prioritize their schedule for the following year depending on their professional goals.
Your PGY2 year increases responsibility for ward teams and patients in the units, with increasing continuity as their ambulatory practice matures. During inpatient rotations residents supervise all aspects of intern’s patient care. They also grow as educators and are responsible for teaching medical students who are doing their clerkships and sub-internships. There is a good balance of inpatient and outpatient experiences in addition to general medicine and subspecialty experiences.
| Rotation |
Amount of Time per Year |
| General Medicine Wards (including night medicine) |
2 months |
| Medical Intensive Care Unit |
1 month |
| Coronary Care Unit |
1 month |
| Transplant Hepatology |
1 month |
| Neurology |
2 weeks |
| Ambulatory Medicine |
3 months |
| Subspecialty Electives/Research |
2.5 months |
| Vacation |
1 month |
Postgraduate Year Three:
Senior residents work to hone their teaching and mentorship skills in the supervisory role on both the inpatient floors and medical consult for other services. During this year they focus on their clinical reasoning and judgment with continued patient care both inpatient and out. At this time they can participate in our global health experience, using the skills they have gained internationally.
| Rotation |
Amount of Time per Year |
| General Medicine Wards (including night medicine) |
2.5 months |
| Medical Consult |
1 month |
| Oncology |
1 month |
| Emergency Medicine |
2 weeks |
| Geriatrics |
2 weeks |
| Ambulatory Medicine |
3 months |
| Subspecialty Electives/Research |
2 months |
| Vacation |
1 month |