Hospital-Inpatient Medicine

Team structure:

Will contain one senior resident and two interns in addition to 1-2 fourth-year medical students and 1-2 third-year students.

1. Coordinating the day-to-day function of the team and directly supervising interns and sub-interns.
2. Responsible for patient distribution to interns and medical students as well as assuring that patient load does not compromise patient care and educational goals.
3. Responsible for supervising the entire admission of new patient, including reviewing all intern orders as well as writing addendum to intern’s note as needed.
4. Senior residents are responsible for adequate communication of patient care issues among members of the team, including the attending physician.
5. Responsible for providing written evaluations of the attending physician, interns, sub-interns and third-year students.

1. All responsibilities and clinical privileges of the intern are under the guidance and supervision of the attending and resident physicians.
2. Responsible for writing daily progress notes as well as reviewing and writing addendums to medical students’ daily notes on all patients assigned to them.
3. Responsible for cross covering all medicine patients on the floors when on call. This includes: responding in a prompt and professional manners to all nursing questions and concerns, completing assigned patients tasks by the primary teams, evaluating acutely sick patients and writing progress notes to explain events. The on call resident is available at all times to aid the intern in the management of these patients. The intern is responsible for communicating in person the acute events to the primary team or the night float team.
4. Responsible for supervising and teaching third-year medical students.
5. Responsible for writing discharge summaries for each patient within 24 hours of discharge.