Hospital Statistics (Fiscal year 2001)

Program Tracks

 

Internal Medicine Specialty Track Internship - This track provides recent graduates to complete an AOA-approved internship that simultaneously counts as their first year of internal medicine residency training.  Curriculum structure:

• Internal Medicine - 8 weeks
• Internal Medicine Subspecialty - 8 weeks
• Internal Medicine / Cardiology - 4 weeks
• Internal Medicine / Pulmonology - 4 weeks
• General Surgery - 4 weeks
• Emergency Medicine - 4 weeks
• Psychiatry - 4 weeks
• Anesthesiology - 2 weeks
• Radiology - 2 weeks
• Ambulatory Primary Care (pediatrics, gynecology, family practice, or OMM) - 4 weeks
• Elective - 4 weeks

Internal Medicine Lectures:

1. Grand Rounds
2. Tumor Board
3. OMM Lecture Series
4. Radiology Lecture Series
5. Geriatric Lecture Series
6. IM Case Report
7. ECG Conference
8. Cardiac Cath Conference
9. Primary Care Conference
10. Rheumatology Lecture Series
11. Pulmonology Lecture Series
12. Nephrology Lecture Series
13. IM Board Review (Wed AM)
14. Journal Club
15. Morning Report

Primary Care Track in General Internal Medicine (3 Years) - The primary care track is the preferred training for development of in-depth skills in the diagnosis and medical management of the ambulatory patient with associated skills in the routine continuity management of the hospitalized patient.  It is recommended that the primary care track not be utilized as a pathway to a subspecialty.  The hallmark of the primary care is progressively increasing exposure to continuity ambulatory care, which shall exist in each year of the three year program.  The resident will spend approximately two half-days per week in an ambulatory setting.  This exposure allows residents to progressively increase the number of patients in their case loads and allows the patients to recognize the residents as their primary physician. 

 

Traditional Track in General Internal Medicine (3 years) - The traditional track is the preferred training for development of hospital based (hospitalist) skills or progression towards a subspecialty pathway.  Residents in the Traditional Track will spend approximately one half-day per week in an ambulatory clinical setting with the remaining time focused on in-patient care.  Structured educational programs will also be offered in the following areas: utilization review/quality management; mortality and morbidity reporting; manage care aspects of the hospitalized patient; and infection control.

 

Hospitalist Track (3 years)

Educational Purpose

 

Goal:

The goal of the hospital elective is to give physician house officers and medical students a detailed look at the unique competencies that are required by a physician whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients.  The activities include patient care, teaching, research and leadership related to hospital care.

 

Objectives:

A. System review.

1.                  Utilization review.

2.                  Quality assurance.

3.                  Healthcare economics.

4.                  Medical administration.

B. Continuum of care issues.

1.                  Coordination of care between settings. 

2.                  Knowledge of home care and Hospice.

3.                  Assessment of functional status.

4.                  Knowledge of therapeutic capabilities of nursing homes.

C. Medical/basic knowledge areas.

1.                  Geriatrics.

2.                  Pre and postop care of the surgical patient.

3.                  End of life and palliative care.

4.                  Communication skills.

 

Teaching methods:

1.              Direct observation.

2.              Service on a hospital team made up of attendings, senior  resident, house officers,   

                 and students.

3.              Chart audits.

4.              Committee membership including utilization  review and quality assurance.

5.              Teaching rounds.

6.              Not limited to but including general internal medicine residency training.

 

 

Internal Medicine Externships for Medical Students

 

The Department of Internal Medicine offers the following internal medicine externships for third and fourth year medical students:

• Cardiology
• Geriatric Medicine
• Hematology/Oncology
• Hospitalist Service
• Infectious Disease
• Internal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pulmonology
• Rheumatology

Hospital Affiliations

The Internal Medicine Residency has affiliations with: Bay Pines VA Healthcare System and Hospital and the James A. Haley VA Hospital.

Sun Coast Hospital serves as the West Coast Academic Center of NSU - College of Osteopathic Medicine.  As part of NSU-COM, Sun Coast Hospital participates in the Consortium for Excellence in Medical Education (CEME), in partnership with NSU-COM and ten other Florida-based teaching hospitals.

Other university affiliations include: The University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery (Des Moines, IA), the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (Pomona, CA).

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