HOSPITAL-BASED TRAINING

• One-on-one teaching with attendings

  

• 24 hour direct access to attendings

• No middle person (subspecialty fellows) to take away procedures

• Ideal inpatient ward teams: one attending physician, two teams  with one team consisting of either a supervising resident and 2 interns OR 2 senior floor residents.

• Patient load meets Residency Review Committee guidelines: limit of 5 admissions per day and no more than 12 patients under your care at any one time

• Cardiac center with open-heart surgery, sophisticated catheterization labs and cardiac rehabilitation center

• IV Therapy Team and Phlebotomists are available for IV insertions and blood draw functions

• Comfortable hospital environment allows residents to know all their peers, attendings, consultants, nurses, technicians and social workers within a short time

• Team approach to patient care with nursing staff, physical/occupational therapist, respiratory therapist, social services and pastoral care

  

• Addiction medicine and fully supported detoxification facilities

• Unique Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery

• Unique Wound Care Center

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy facilities

• Transitional Care Unit and Long-Term Acute Care Unit (skilled nursing)

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