Griffin Hospital offers a friendly environment where preliminary year interns learn how to manage day to day internal medicine problems, ranging from simple internal medicine cases to complicated critically ill patients. The large number of dedicated core clinical faculty, the patient focused clinical training coupled with Yale faculty conferences, grand rounds and teaching rounds make for an exceptional medical training.

The Preliminary Medicine year at Griffin consists of three to four months of "General Medicine", two months of "Cardiology", one month of “ Non-Cardiac Telemetry”, one to two months of "Intensive Care Unit", four weeks of "night float", two weeks of "Emergency Medicine" and six weeks

 

 of an “Elective”. Electives are available at the Internal Medicine subspecialty departments or with ambulatory teaching sites. Our preliminary graduates have gone on to pursue medical careers in various fields, such as Neurology, Radiology, Anesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Physical Medicine, Nuclear Medicine and many more.

 

 

 

All PGY-1 residents will be taking 1 in 4 nights call during General medicine rotations, in which they stay in the hospital until 8:30 PM. There is no overnight call on the weekdays. The night float intern works five days a week and has Friday and Saturday night off. Each night float rotation is only two weeks long and each intern does not get more than two blocks of night float. During ICU and Telemetry, the long calls will be 1 in 5. The calls are overnight and all interns leave by 11:30 am post call. During Elective and Ambulatory rotations PGY1s do not have call. The ER call is comprised of 3 twelve hour shifts per week. The number of admissions, on going care of patients and duty hours are strictly adhered to as per ACGME standards.