The daily teaching schedule includes work and attending rounds as well as a resident morning report. Weekly conferences include Medical Grand Rounds, four Core Curriculum Conferences classrooms (designed to cover, over a three-year period, the management of the major medical problems seen by internists), Chairman's Rounds, Ambulatory Care Conference, Resident Journal Club and various subspecialty conferences. During July and August, Emergency Medicine  courses are given in lieu of Grand Rounds and the Core Curriculum Conferences. Board Reviews  sessions both in didactic and question and answer format are held regularly. Women's health, Evidence-Based Medicine and medical computer literacy are emphasized.

The Department of Medicine teaching faculty is composed of full­time and voluntary internists in general medicine and all the subspecialties.  Each has a faculty appointment at Drexel University College of Medicine. The two chief medical residents (PGY-4) are involved in all aspects of teaching and help coordinate the training) program. Interns and residents at Graduate are expected to play an active role in the teaching and bedside instruction of medical, students. For categorical house staff the Residency Program pays for Associate Membership in the America College of Physicians, which includes a yearly subscription to the Annals of Internal Medicine. Medical residents also receive an educational stipend in their second year to attend national conferences or for the purchase of medical textbooks and journals.

More than 200 clinical research protocols are reviewed annually by Graduate's Institutional Review Board. Of these, more than two thirds come from the Department of Medicine's active research programs in Rheumatology, Nephrology, Pulmonary Medicine, Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology, Hematology­Oncology and Internal Medicine.

A Department of Health and Human Services grant currently supports a medical clinic program which develops strategies in preventive care and mechanisms to improve medical care for certain chronic diseases in an underprivileged population. Our Chair, Dr. Castell, directs a number of NIH-funded projects on esophageal motility.

House Staff Information

First –Year Residence

The first year of residency training begins in late June to allow time for an orientation period. All residents must be certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) before starting their residency training.  These certification sessions are arranged by the Department of Medicine.

Requirements for the Practice of Medicine

All residents must have a medical training license from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All incoming residents will receive an application for the medical training license from the Office of Medical Education immediately following the National Match. Instructions will be included. The training license must be renewed each year that the resident is in training. Residents who have graduated from an LCME-accredited school must complete two years of a residency before they can receive an unrestricted medical license (three years if from other schools).  Applications for an unrestricted license can also be obtained from the Office of Medical Education. However, even with an unrestricted medical license, residents must still apply annually for a training license.

Contractual Obligation

Residents are appointed for 12 months and are reappointed annually based upon a satisfactory evaluation of performance by the faculty and program director.

Salaries

Salaries for house staff are commensurate with the best available in the country today for a city-university setting.

Benefits

Our benefits package includes full malpractice coverage, as well as medical insurance for the house staff and their families. In addition, we offer a long-term disability package for all house staff.

Vacations

House staff are entitled to two weeks of vacation in the first year and four weeks in each of the following years. All house staff, in addition, get five days off either during Christmas or New Year.

Uniforms

Residents receive three lab coats per contract year. Laundry service is provided at no charge.

Parking

At Graduate, parking for house staff is provided free of charge. Residents must register their cars with the Parking Office to receive a parking access card. The Parking Office will assign a designated lot.

Employee Assistance Program

Tenet recognizes the importance of employee physical and emotional health relative to job performance and overall quality of life. This program outlines the availability of professional, ethical and confidential services to provide a link in helping to match an employee seeking assistance with an appropriate resource.

On-Call Accommodations

Rooms and meal tickets are provided for residents on-call overnight. The cafeteria is conveniently located within the hospital.

General Information

Health Services

Employee/Student Health Services are available to residents for primary medical care, including immunizations and referrals.  House staff can select  their own physicians.

Professional Membership 

The Medicine Residency Program pays for membership as an associate in the American College of Physicians. This includes a subscription to the Annals of Internal Medicine. Free photocopying and computerized literature search facilities are provided. Second year residents are entitled an educational allowance to purchase text books, journals or to attend conferences.