Education Coordinator: Dr. Vivian Ng vivian.ng@nygh.on.ca
Site/Medical Education Administrative Assistant: Jordan Hoeller Jordan.hoeller@nygh.on.ca
Overview
The Internal Medicine rotations are an integral component in your Family Medicine training. The knowledge, skills and confidence you gather during these rotations will serve you well throughout your entire medical career. Take advantage of these rotations and expose yourself to as many clinical narratives to enrich your learning.
Internal Medicine is the umbrella department that oversees the following clinical rotations:
General Internal Medicine
Geriatrics
Hospitalist
Intensive Care
Medicine Selectives
Palliative Care
Emergency Department Consult Service
The rotations are divided between your PGY-1 and PGY-2 years.
The PGY-1 year consists of 2 blocks of Internal Medicine:
4 weeks (one block) of in-patient Hospitalist Medicine
4 weeks (one block) of General Internal Medicine
The PGY-2 year year consists of 2 blocks of Internal Medicine:
4 weeks of Palliative Care
2 weeks of Medical Selectives
4 weeks of Geriatrics
The Hospitalist rotation is a 4- week rotation during your PGY-1 year. The Hospitalist ward at NYGH is 8West. You will work one-on-one with an assigned Hospitalist and carry between 8-12 patients. Your weekday hours are often roughly 8AM - 5PM. In addition, you will do one weekday evening call per week in the ER and one full weekend of daytime callrounding. See below for more information regarding Internal Medicine Call. All of the learning objectives and goals are listed under the Hospitalist page.
The General Internal Medicine rotation is a 4 week rotation during your PGY-1 year. It consists of the following:
1 Week of Out-patient ConsultsAmbulatory Clinic
You will work one-on-one with a General Internist, seeing assessing patients referred from the Emergency Department or as a follow-up to an admissionfamily physician.
Monday-Friday; 8AM-5PM; in the Medical/Surgical Clinic located on the Ground floor
2 Weeks of In-patient Care
You will work one-on-one with an assigned General Internal Medicine Preceptor and carry between 8-12 10 patients.
Monday-Friday; 8AM-5PM; on various inpatient floors throughout the hospital7 or 8 Southeast
The weekend in the middle of these two weeks, you will do 1 weekend of call with your assigned preceptorYou will be responsible for one weekend of daytime rounding between the two weeks of wards.
1 Week of evening ED Medical Consults
You will work one-on-one with a General Internist, seeing patients as a consultant in the EDassessing patients for admission from the emergency department. See below for more information regarding Internal Medicine Call.
Monday-Friday; 7:30PM-11:30PM; in the Emergency Department.Total of three shifts, evenings and one overnight.
You will have no daytime duties. Please note that this is NOT considered call.
All of the learning objectives and goals for the GIM rotation are listed under the General Internal Medicine page.
The Geriatric rotation is a 4 week rotation during your PGY-2 year. See the Geriatrics page for more information.
The Palliative Care rotation is a 4 week rotation during your PGY-2 year. See the Palliative Medicine page for more information.
You will have a chance to choose different medicine sub-specialties, each 1-2 week long for electives. Please see electives section for more information. Consult IM contact list to set up electives. Options include follows:
Allergy
Cardiology
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
General Internal Medicine
Geriatrics
Hematology
Infectious Disease
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Oncology
Nephrology
Respirology
Rheumatology
During your Hospitalist and General Internal Medicine rotation, your are obliged to do callcall is a requirement. As part of the General Internal Medicine rotation, you will do one weekend of call fordaytime rounding on the in-patient wards. This weekend will be in the middle of your 2 weeks of in-patient care. You will also have 1 week of evening ED medicals consults, so no additional call is requiredwhich usually consists of 2 evening shifts (7:30pm to 1:30 am), and one overnight shift (11:30pm to 7:30 am). Your week of evening ED consults will be done with one of the Pool B General Internists, as listed below.
During the Hospitalist rotation, call consists of 1 weekend in-patient ward call and 1 evening shift per week for ED consults. Weekday calls are from 6PM-midnight. Using the calendar below, you will assign yourself to a Pool A General Internist (listed below). Occasionally, Pool B internists will be listed as well. Feel free to join them. However, please do not assign yourself to any slots with locum doctors or any other doctors not listed in Pool A.
Pool A: Drs. Benny Wong, Brian Katchan, Krystyna Kruczynski, Phil Shin, Sheryl Gutzin, Steve Elia, Vivian Lee
Pool B: Drs. Amardeep Mangat, Benjamin Bell, Eneko Arhanchiague, Maral Nadjafi, Pascal Bastien, Prateek Khatri, Russell Bader, Vivian Ng, Kevin Liu, Nancy Song, Karen Lien, Sagar Rohailla, Anna Liu, Natalia Reiner
The calendar below, "docroster", is an up-to-date version of which Pool A General Internists will be working. To be able to view and edit the calendar, you will need to be invited to the calendar AND be logged into a google account.
Contact Sharita Wimalanathan at Sharita.Wimalanathan@nygh.on.ca for the invitation.
You do NOT need a gmail account to access the calendar. Once you have access, pPlease add yourself to the calendar for Hospitalist call. You will need 1 shift per week; first come first serve. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP FOR ANY THURSDAY EVENINGS. If there are any issues, contact the FM chief residents or Dr. Vivian Ng.