Residents and Medical Students

Learning Objectives

By the end of the rotation the Resident/Med-Student should be able to:

• Perform appropriate endocrine exams.
• Discuss the purposes of endocrinologic tests and when to appropriately order them.
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate the history, physical exam, and lab results in order to reach a diagnostic conclusion.
• List the available treatment options for the management of diabetes, thyroid and pituitary disease as well as the other endocrinologic disorders encountered.

Resident and Medical students rotating through the endocrine division spend half of the time with the inpatient service team.  They also have dedicated outpatient clinics scheduled in diabetes and general endocrine clinic as well as rotating through the thyroid biopsy and pituitary clinics.

Residents are also scheduled solely in the outpatient clinic on Friday PM as a continuing mandatory clinic through the whole year.

Inpatient

Residents/students are expected to round daily with the Attending on service under the supervision of fellow(s). The time to round is determined by the schedule of the Attending on service.

Clinical

Residents and Med Students are expected to engage in the following clinic:

Thyroid Biopsy Clinic: Monday morning FNA clinic (AC3) 8:00am - 12:00pm

Pituitary-Endo (2180 S. Clinton Avenue): Wednesday 1:00 - 4:00pm

Diabetes Clinic (AC-3): Thursday 1:00 - 5:00pm (residents and 4^th year URMC medical students have their own patient scheduled)

General Endocrine Clinic (AC-3): Friday 1:10 - 5:10pm (residents and 4^th year URMC medical students have their own patient scheduled)

Conferences

Residents and Med Students are expected to attend all endocrine conferences that are not in conflict with their own continuity clinics. Full endocrine conferences listing.

Evaluations

All Residents and Med Students are expected to complete a 360° evaluation of the scheduled triage fellow on consult service. Our fellow(s) are aware that they will be evaluated as a requirement of their fellowship training. Evaluations are completed through the MEDHUB system.

Time Away From Rotation

Residents and Med Students are expected to be available with the Endocrine team for the duration of their rotation unless notification is otherwise sent via SMH Chief resident, AMION schedule (pull, NF, personal day, etc.), or endocrine closing.  Email notification of time away must be sent directly to the Program Coordinator, Deana Jones, and Resident Schedule Coordinator, Alycia Frank, by the IM chief resident and IM Coordinator.