Ward Team Rounds: Each ward team, composed of housestaff and medical students, makes morning work and teaching rounds together.
Morning Report: Second and third year residents meet daily with the Program Director, or a selected faculty member, to discuss the previous day's admissions. First year residents meet with the Program Director weekly to review their patients.
ICU Attending Teaching Rounds: The entire ICU team makes morning bedside teaching rounds with a faculty Intensivist
Attending Physician Teaching Rounds: Formal teaching rounds are conducted three days a week by the team's attending physician, who is selected from among full-time and part-time faculty members.
Noon Core-Curriculum Conference Series: Held three to four times a week, these sessions present an organized core curriculum in all of the subspecialty areas of Internal Medicine. Also included are seminars and conferences on specialty topics outside internal medicine but relevant to primary care. The goal is to integrate pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy into a rational approach that includes consideration of cost-effectiveness.
Resident Case Conferences: Once a week, residents and faculty meet to formally present and discuss their most interesting and instructive cases.
Death Review Conferences: Each month a member of the full-time faculty critically reviews all deaths on the teaching service.
EKG Review: Last Friday of every month, residents meet with a cardiologists and review interesting electrocardiograms.
Autopsy Review: Each month one full-time pathologist reviews all postmortem pathology specimens, both gross and micro, with the residents in a hands-on conference.
Radiology Conference: Resident teams review their most interesting and instructive radiographic studies with a staff radiologist at a weekly conference.
Physical Findings Conference: A faculty member with a special interest in physical diagnosis demonstrates or confirms physical finding on the residents' patients.
Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Each month, a selected house officer, faculty member, radiologist, and pathologist join in presenting a critical evaluation of the management of a specific patient.
Medical Grand Rounds: Three times a month, an invited speaker discusses a timely topic of general interest to members of the department.
Journal Club: Medical residents present and critically discuss articles centered around the major current medical journals., as they learn to evaluate the primary literature.
Research Conferences: A research project is required of each three year resident. A faculty member, who serves as director of resident research, meets monthly with the residents as a group to review research and monitor progress. Each project is expected to result in a presentation at a state or national meeting and/or a paper in a refereed journal. Our residents have regularly won awards and special recognition at the resident research competition at the meeting of the Missouri Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
MKSAP Review: An invited subspecialist critically reviews one section of the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) of the American College of Physicians with housestaff who are preparing for the Internal Medicine Board Examination.
University Conferences: A full schedule of subspecialty conferences and weekly Grand Rounds are held at the St. Louis University School of Medicine. St. Mary's residents on electives at the University are expected to attend these additional conferences.