Since the 1800's, General Medical Clinical Teaching Units (CTU’s), have provided medical students and residents with a unique opportunity to learn medicine and acquire essential clinical experience, while maintaining the highest standards of patient care.
General Medical CTU’s allow trainees to participate actively in the management of inpatients with a wide range of acute and chronic medical diagnoses, and related personal and social problems, within a structured, supervised environment. Students and residents learn not only from active participation in patient care, but also through serving as part of a house staff team, and in daily interactions with nursing personnel, allied health care professionals, supervising faculty, and a variety of consultation services.
Prescheduled teaching seminars and rounds provide additional opportunities for students and residents to learn, as well as providing continuing medical education (CME) for faculty. All internal medicine residents assigned to the General Medical CTU’s are also required to attend the Internal Medicine Academic Half Day each Thursday afternoon.
Original contributions from Dr. Bruce Fisher