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Indiana University School of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
The Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency Program strives to develop leaders in the field of internal medicine through a robust curriculum.

Curriculum

The Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency program strives to develop leaders in the field of internal medicine through a collaborative structure emphasizing our broad scope of training across an environment and a large rural referral center serving 250,000 people in 12 counties.

Didactics

The Southwest Internal Medicine Residency considers the didactic curriculum a key part of resident education. The importance of this protected learning time is highlighted as a vital aspect of residency training. 

"Morning reports" are scheduled weekdays at Good Samaritan and Deaconess Gateway inpatient services and Resident Faculty Practices. Morning reports depend on resident contribution and discussion interaction. The primary goal is to cover all common cases being managed in the hospitals and outpatient practices. 

Core Curriculum Conferences are held Tuesday through Friday, available virtually to all sites, and archived to our web site. Core Curriculum Conferences cover ABIM Blueprint topics with focus on evidence-based medicine guidelines and standards of management. Core faculty and subspecialty faculty discuss a wide range of topics, with resident engagement through question and answer session encouraged. 

Journal club is held twice a month. Two residents each choose a paper to present based on a question surrounding a clinical case. Residents prepare for journal club under the supervision of an associate program director. Residents present the study using the JAMA user's guide format and integrate EBM pearls in the discussion. After presentation of the article, questions and discussion of the article as well as clinical relevance to daily practice is discussed. 

The cardiology resident presents a challenging case managed during the cardiology rotation to a multidisciplinary audience of residents, faculty, cardiologists, cardiology department personnel and nursing staff. 

Once per month, two residents each present a case with a focus quality improvement parameter. The resident works with an associate program director to prepare the case, build a fishbone diagram and perform root cause analysis. 

Sample Resident Schedule

  PGY-1 PGY-2 PGY-3
1 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research
2 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research
3 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research
4 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 ER
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
10% research		 Night Med
GSH/SV
0% outpatient
10% research
5 Inpatient
GSH/SV 1
20% outpatient
10% research		 MICU
GSH/SV
10% outpatient
10% research		 MICU
GSH/SV
10% outpatient
10% research
6 Inpatient
GSH/SV
20% outpatient
10% research		 Clinic/
Vacation
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Clinic/
Vacation
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research
7 Clinic/
Vacation
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research
8 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research
9 Clinic
GSH/SV
100% outpatient
20% research		 Neuro
SV
100% outpatient
10% research		 Clinic
SV
100% outpatient
20% research
10 MICU
GSH/SV
10% outpatient
10% research		 Geriatric
SV
100% outpatient
10% research		 Subspecialty
SV
100% outpatient
10% research
11 Night Med
GSH/SV
0% outpatient
10% research		 Subspecialty
SV
100% outpatient
10% research		 Subspecialty
SV
100% outpatient
10% research
12 Subspecialty
SV
100% outpatient
10% research		 Subspecialty
SV
50% outpatient
10% research		 Subspecialty
SV
50% outpatient
10% research
13 Subspecialty/
Vacation
SV
20% outpatient		 Subspecialty/
Vacation
SV
100% outpatient		 Subspecialty/
Vacation
SV
100% outpatient

Site Key
GSH = Good Samaritan Hospital
SV = St. Vincent Evansville

  • Research conducted longitudinally, 20% during ambulatory, 10% other rotations
  • Opportunities for experiences in allergy/immunology, dermatology, medical ophthalmology, office gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, non-operative orthopedics, palliative medicine, sleep medicine, and rehabilitation medicine, may be done in 1-2 week rotations that replace a subspecialty rotation or be integrated into half-day sessions on ambulatory block rotations.
  • All residents will do sleep medicine as part of their pulmonary subspecialty rotations.
  • Non operative orthopedics will be integrated into continuity clinic.
  • Palliative medicine will be integrated into geriatrics but can be a separate extra rotation.