PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

• Dedicated to practicing and teaching the Core Competencies:

• Patient Care
• Medical Knowledge
• Practice-based Learning and Improvement
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills
• Professionalism
• System-based Practice

• Excellent preparation for practice and/or fellowship training

• In partnership with University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland

• Forward-looking academic community medical center environment affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

• Program fosters increased resident responsibility and autonomy for patient care and for education

  

• Extensive and diverse primary care patient base

• Successfully ethnically integrated medical staff

• Emphasis on general internal medicine

• Unique Features of the Program:

• End of life (palliative care) training
• Pain management
• Communication skills
• Ethics
• Cost and documentation training
• Formal geriatric teaching; including nursing home rotations
• Physical examination skills
• Clinical thinking skills
• Hands-on procedural skills
• Board Review Sessions
• Hospitalist-like rotation

• Success in obtaining sub-specialty fellowships

• Great call schedule

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