Morning Report: Attendance is required at all Morning Reports.
At UF-Health, the General Medicine Ward teams (Blue, Red, Gold, Green, and Orange) are expected to attend, as well as those on all inpatient electives, unless other conference or patient responsibilities prohibit this attendance.
Those on the Ambulatory Block are expected to attend Morning Report on any day on which they are not scheduled for clinic.
At UF-Health, the Oncology, Cardiology, and GI/Liver teams are expected to attend their subspecialty teaching conferences.
At the VA, the General Medicine Ward teams (Blue, Green, Orange, and Red) and the GEM team are expected to attend as well as those on all inpatient electives, unless other conference or patient responsibilities prohibit this attendance.
For Residents and Interns: At both UF-Health and the VA, Morning Report is held every Monday and Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. The locations are the Medicine Library for UF-Health and UF Education Building at the VA. The morning report format for these days will vary from a traditional case presentation, Resident-directed learning or admission intake report. Tuesday and Wednesday Morning report are held jointly at UF-Health in the Medicine Library for both Interns and Residents. Topics covered at Morning Report on Tuesdays and Wednesdays vary but include Medical Jeopardy, Quality Improvement, Radiology Cases, Breakfast with the Chiefs, Journal Club, and others at the discretion of the chief residents.
Noon Conferences: The Resident and Interns are mandated to attend all scheduled conferences including Grand Rounds, M & M, and noon conference. While on the wards, a reminder to the attending that the noon hour is approaching is appropriate so that the team can attend the conference. Noon conference starts at 12:00 pm at UF Health in room 6120 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Grand Rounds: Held every Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in C1-11 (Communicore Building).
Additional Educational Provisions
Senior Talks: Presenting a senior talk is required of all PGY-3’s and fulfills a part of the ACGME requirement for scholarly activities. Topics should be on a clinical or basic science topic, preferably on a research or quality improvement project that the Resident has been involved with during his or her training. The senior talk should be approximately 30 minutes in length, and will be presented at noon conference to all house staff. Senior talks will occur in the spring. A list of dates will be provided by the Chief Residents; the Resident will provide the topic of the lecture when signing up for a date and this topic is subject to approval by the program director and his or her designees.
In-Service Exam: Each year Residents are expected to sit for the In-Service Exam provided by the American College of Physicians, usually occurring in October. All PGY-1’s, PGY- 2’s and PGY-3’s are required to take this exam. If a Resident scores below the 40th percentile compared with peers on the same level, he or she will be required to participate in a remediation process involving the completion of at least 100 board review questions monthly. In addition he or she may be asked to lead additional didactic teaching session and other activities at the discretion of the Chief Residents, Associate Program Directors, and the Program Director. If the resident performs below the 30th percentile on this exam compared to peers at the same level he or she will not be allowed to participate in any moonlighting activities until improvement above the 30th percentile is shown on subsequent in-service exams.