Preliminary Internal Medicine

The Preliminary Medicine year at Griffin consists of four months of "General Medicine", three months of "Cardiology", one month of "Intensive Care Unit", four weeks of "night float", four weeks of "Emergency Medicine" and one month of an elective. Electives are available at the Internal Medicine subspecialty departments or with ambulatory teaching sites. The Preliminary Medicine year at Griffin prepares residents for training in a wide range of specialties such as radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, dermatology, etc.

CALL SCHEDULE

All PGY-1 will be taking 1 in 4 long call nights during General medicine rotations, in which they stay in the hospital until 8:30 PM. There is no overnight call on the weekdays. During ICU and Telemetry, the long calls will be 1 in 5. The calls are overnight and all interns leave by 11:30 am. Interns admit a maximum of 5 new patients per call night.