Elective Options

THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TRAINING

Our solid core curriculum provides the essential educational components each resident needs to become a competent practitioner of internal medicine. Our broad range of elective options presents residents with the opportunity to custom-tailor their training to meet individual needs.

Our program devotes ten months to elective rotations and offers a wide range of primary care and subspecialty electives. On most electives, residents see patients in the ambulatory as well as inpatient setting and work closely with the attendings throughout the day. Directed readings, topic discussions and the opportunity to perform appropriate procedures represent important components of each elective.

Elective Highlights

CARDIOLOGY

• Solucient recognized nationally as one of the "100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success."- one of only two hospitals in Pennsylvania to receive this award
• Over 3,200 cardiac catheterizations and 1,200 PTCA/Stents performed annually
• Open heart surgical program and state-of-the-art Electrophysiology laboratory

ENDOCRINOLOGY

• Large outpatient practice with wide diversity of clinical problems
• Twice monthly conferences including Gyn/Endocrine topics

GASTROENTEROLOGY

• Broad spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders, including inflammatory bowel and liver diseases
• State-of-the-art endoscopy unit with video equipment for teaching purposes
• Attendings perform a wide range of procedures, including ERCP, sphincterotomy, esophageal motility and percutaneous gastrostomy

HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Residents participate in a busy outpatient Cancer Center which serves as a regional referral center for south central Pennsylvania.

• Over 2,100 new patients treated in 2008.
• Large research center engaged in multiple clinical trials. Currently, patients actively participate in over 30 separate clinical trials.
• The Cancer Center is a formal affiliate of the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center.
• State-of-the-art Radiation Therapy Center.
• Resident rotation is primarily outpatient-based, avoiding the skewed experience of an inpatient oncology elective.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

• Busy inpatient and outpatient consultative service supported by excellent microbiology laboratory
• Clinical research opportunities available
• HIV management program supported by four full-time infectious disease physicians

NEPHROLOGY

• Intensive care nephrology
• Management of acute renal failure, chronic renal failure, fluid and electrolyte disturbances

NEUROLOGY

• Major outpatient experience in private office in addition to inpatient consultations
• Readily available studies, including EEGs with evoked potentials, EMGs with nerve conduction studies, MRI and CAT scans

PULMONARY DISEASES

• Emphasis on critical care as well as mechanical and non-invasive ventilation
• Nationally recognized sleep disorder laboratory
• Pulmonary rehabilitation program
• On-site respiratory therapy school
• Opportunities for clinical research

RHEUMATOLOGY

• Residents participate in a large teaching rheumatology practice and see a wide variety of clinical problems.
• Rheumatology clinic