Interviewee Portal - Cayuga IM Residency

The ACGME core competency of Interpersonal and Communications Skills recognizes that effective communication skills are vital for physicians to work with the totality of the health care team.  This includes communicating effectively with patients, providing clear direction to team members, and writing accurate and clear medical records; however, communication skills must extend beyond these daily interactions to include the ability to present and speak to an audience.  

The outcome of these experiences is that residents will not only become adept at leading discussions and comfortable with public speaking, but they will have much greater understanding and retention of information they presented.  Teaching can often be the best way to solidify knowledge and understanding on a topic.

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RESIDENT LED CONFERENCES

All residents are expected to give a one-hour educational conference each year. PGY-2s and 3s are invited to do an additional resident-led talk during the educational half-day that provides an opportunity to teach what they learned from various elective rotations.  Our residents have the tremendously valuable experience of rotating through clinics such as Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Wound Care, Women’s Health, etc. in addition to medicine subspecialties; we want to benefit collectively from these experiences by having the residents share what they have learned to their peers and faculty. 

For the resident-led conferences (RLC), residents are invited to choose from a variety of subject matters, such as:

1. core curriculum topics of interest that are not yet covered by faculty-led lectures

2. topics in clinical medicine that are relevant for practice but not strictly covered by the ABIM (e.g.: dermatologic conditions in skin of color, oral health, shared decision making tools, functional gut disorders, de-prescribing)

3. non-clinical topics related to the practice of medicine (e.g.: narrative medicine, learner theory for graduate medical education, health policy, medical ethics.

 

JOURNAL CLUB

Journal Club is a standard in residency programs. The main goals are to (1) develop your ability to critically appraise medical literature and (2) improve patient care by using current evidence for clinical practice. This exercise will also help you build your teaching and oral presentation skills. Each intern will present one article each year. PGY-2s and 3s will be expected to present two articles yearly.

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RESIDENT CASE CONFERENCE

Resident case conferences are structured sessions where second and third year residents present cases they have come across in the hospital or clinic. Each one hour conference will cover two cases.

As the unknown case unfolds, participants will actively discuss their thought process to help reach the diagnosis or to choose a management plan. The presenter will ultimately give short pearls related to the case.

Cases will be included based on their learning value, interesting and rare diagnosis, delay in diagnosis due to bias or misinterpretation of data, complex or novel management, or outcomes of management.