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I am in an AOA internal medicine program. How many months of medicine did you have to do? The requirements are 4 months and 1 ICU.
Don't think that's a specific requirement, at least that I could find in a quick run through of the rules.I'm pretty sure ACGME requires 6 months of medicine wards first year.
Don't think that's a specific requirement, at least that I could find in a quick run through of the rules.
ACGME does require a minimum of 1/3 and a maximum of 2/3 of the residency be inpatient though, so I suppose the allowable range for each year is 4-8 months.
You're right, just managed to find the rule. It's not from the ACGME though, it's from the ABIM:Hm. I seem to remember something like 6 months intern and 6 months supervising. But I have been wrong before. Ask my wife.
In addition, the following requirements for direct patient responsibility must be met:
- At least 24 months of the 36 months of residency education must occur in settings where the resident personally provides or supervises less experienced residents who provide direct care to patients in inpatient or ambulatory settings.
- At least six months of the direct patient responsibility on internal medicine rotations must occur during the R-1 year.
Note that all of the rules and protections we discuss above are for ACGME programs. Your AOA program has significantly fewer rules governing it. Have fun.wow our pd is making us do 8 plus 1 month of nights. It just seems like a lot.
That's life sometimes. Must be a small program. Somebody has to move the meat.
Wow.
As interns, we did 7 months wards + 1 month nights + 1 month ICU, and this was not a small program (130+ IM residents). We were covering 4 hospitals, however.