Welcome to the Internal Medicine Residency Program Curriculum

Faculty and resident have created an overall curriculum map for the educational experiences provided throughout the three years of Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residency. Our goal in creating this educational map is for all residents, fellows, and faculty to have the same mental model or shared expectations of each educational unit.

Here is the full outline of the resources on this IMRPC website:

Program Guiding Documents
  1. VUMC Mission Statement
  2. Vanderbilt Department of Medicine Mission Statement
  3. Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Program Description
  4. Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Program Aims
  5. Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Program goals and objectives
  6. ACGME Internal Medicine milestones
  7. ACGME Internal Medicine program requirements
  8. ABIM curricular outline for the internal medicine board examination
  9. Internal Medicine End of Training EPAs
  10. ACGME Milestone Guidebook for Residents
  11. Vanderbilt GME Housestaff Manual

Inpatient Educational Units

Inpatient ward rotations

  1. Brittingham (Malignant Heme)
  2. Cardiology - CHF
  3. Cardiology - Harrison
  4. Geriatrics
  5. Morgan/VA -General Medicine Wards
  6. Nights
  7. Oncology
  8. Rogers - Hepatology
  9. Rogers - ID
  10. Rogers - Pulm
  11. Rogers - Renal
  12. VA BMT
ICU Rotations
  1. VA MICU
  2. VA CCU
  3. VU CVICU
  4. VU MICU
Inpatient Consult Electives
  1. Arrhythmia
  2. Benign Hematology and Sickle Cell
  3. Cardiology
  4. Endocrinology
  5. Gastroenterology
  6. General Medicine
  7. Hypertension/Autonomics
  8. Infectious diseases
  9. Nephrology
  10. Palliative care
  11. Procedure Service Elective
  12. Pulmonary
  13. Rheumatology
Outpatient Educational Units

Continuity Clinic

Subspecialty Clinic Electives

  1. Acute Medicine Practice
  2. Allergy/Immunology
  3. Cardiogenetics
  4. Cardiology
  5. Center for Integrative Health
  6. Dermatology
  7. Endocrinology
  8. Gastroenterology
  9. Genetics
  10. Geriatrics
  11. Health Equity Elective
  12. Hematology
  13. Infectious diseases
  14. Lipid/HTN Clinic
  15. Medical Weight Loss
  16. Mental Health Elective
  17. Nephrology
  18. Oncology
  19. Pulmonary
  20. Rheumatology
  21. Sports medicine
  22. Vanderbilt walk-in clinic - acute care
  23. Women’s health
Community Clinic Electives
  1. Charis Clinic
  2. Cool springs IM/Peds Practice
  3. Matthew Walker Clinic
  4. Neighborhood Health
  5. Rural Health - Byrdstown Regional Medical Center
  6. Shade Tree Clinic
  7. Siloam Refugee Health Clinic
Required educational experiences in other departments
  1. Adult Emergency Medicine
  2. Neurology - inpatient, consults or clinic    - Handout-Neurology for rotators
Projects

High-Value Care Curricula and Projects

International Electives Resources

Physical Exam skills -

1. Sim lab exams with rheumatology 

2. Standford 25 - Physical Exam Demonstrations

Research

  1. CIT - Clinical Investigator Toolbox Elective 
  2. Longitudinal Research Experience
  3. Research Clinic Rotation

Quality improvement

  1. Didactics
  2. MM&I
  3. Projects
Didactic Education

Academic Half Day - outpatient curriculum

VA Conference Curriculum - inpatient curriculum

VUMC Conference Curriculum - inpatient curriculum

Special Tracks

Certificate in Ethics

Excite - EXcellent In TEaching - Pathway

Global Health Track

Harrison Society

R38 - STARR - Stimulating Access to Research in Residency

Reflection, self-assessment, and life-long learning

Individualized learning plans

Writing learning goals and objectives