Internal Medicine Residency Program
Inpatient Care
Categorical and Preliminary first-year residents have similar rotation schedules. They spend the majority of their time on inpatient services and have primary responsibility for a wide range of patients on general medicine, critical care, cardiology and subspecialty services.
Inpatient teams usually consist of two R-1s, an R-2 or R-3, and a teaching attending. Teams frequently have third year Dartmouth clerks and/or visiting students from UCSF or numerous other American medical schools. The house staff assumes responsibility for most medical inpatients.
First and second year residents on the medical service are on overnight call two nights each rotation (1 Friday and 1 Saturday), other nights are covered by an R-1 and R-2 admitting night float team. MICU and Cardiology are Q4 night call while Heme-Onc is Q7. Night floats are used at all levels of training including the MICU.
