Internal Medicine Residency Training at Westchester Medical Center

Program Information

Westchester Medical Center - Our Hospital

• The Major Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital for Westchester County, NY
• Level I Trauma Center
• Diverse mix of patients from rural and urban communities in the surrounding 8 counties
• Comprehensive Primary Care Center
• Academic Medical Center of New York Medical College

Department of Medicine Faculty

• Over 80 full time faculty members
• Represents all sub-specialties of Medicine
• Active in clinical practice and research

Yearly Schedule

PGY-I

• 3 1/2 months Medicine floors
• 2 months Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
• 1 month Ambulatory Clinic (Prelim’s do Step-Down)
• 1 month Vacation
• 1 1/2 months Night Float
• 1 1/2 month Elective
• 1 month Emergency Room
• 1/2 month Quality Improvement Rotation

PGY II

• 3 months floor
• 2 month Elective
• 1 month CCU
• 1 1/2 months Medicine Specialty Floors
• 1 month Night Float
• 1 month Ambulatory Clinic
• 1 month Consults
• 1 month Vacation
• 1/2 month Quality Improvement Rotation

PGY III

• 6 months Electives
• 1 month Ambulatory Clinic
• 1 month ICU
• 1 month ICU Night Float
• 1 month ER
• 1 month Medicine Consults
• 1 month Vacation

A Typical Day on the Floors

7:30 AM: Sign-in
8:00 AM: Team Rounds
9:00 AM: Morning Report
10:00 AM: Attending Rounds (Chairman Rounds)
11:00 AM: Teaching Rounds
12:00 PM: Noon Conference
1:30 PM: Work Rounds or Continuity Clinic
4:30 PM: Sign-out

Floors:

• Weekends, Call and Night Float

Floor Call:

• Every 4th night from 4:30pm-9:00pm

Weekends:

• One 24 hour period off (Sat or Sun, depending on call)
• 10 hours off between shifts
• 16 hours maximum shift on weekend call

Floor Night Float:

• Six nights/week from 9:00pm-7:00am (Sun – Fri)
• Weekday early morning Educational Bedside rounds with Dr. Sule

 
Morning Report

• 5x/week for Residents - Led by Program Leadership
• 1x/week for Interns - Led by Dr. Moshman
• Chairman Morning Report on Fridays - Led by Dr. Frishman

Noon Conferences

• Weekly comprehensive lecture series covering all specialties of medicine given by Department of Medicine Faculty
• Bi-monthly Journal Club
• Weekly Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
• Quarterly Morbidity and Mortality Rounds
• Monthly Humanities Conference

Ancillary Services

• 24/7 phlebotomy shifts
• IV’s by nurses and STAT flight
• EKG technicians 24/7
• Patient transporter support by STAT flight

The Units

• Intensive Care Unit
• Pulmonary/Critical Care fellow and attending team
• Hands on experience with Ventilator, fluid, and line management
• Excellent case diversity

• Coronary Care Unit
• Cardiology fellow and attending team
• Primary Angioplasty
• > 8500 caths performed per year

Clinical Skills Education

• Emergency Room Admitting Team Teaching Rounds
• HARVEY cardiac skills patient simulator
• Evidence Based OSCE
• Central Line Placement
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, simulation training

Salary

• PGY1 $56,279
• PGY2 $61,277
• PGY3 $66,953

Housing

• On-campus housing is available for the interns on a limited basis.

CIR

• Our housestaff are CIR members and enjoy many benefits including:
• Meal Cards are offered to housestaff that are on-call
• Books and Equipment - $500/year
• Conference - $1000/year
• Conference - PGY3 and above will receive an additional $500
• Optical - $100/year (also available for the spouse)
• See the CIR website for full details: http://www.cirseiu.org/Benefits/NY/public/HSBP_WMC/default.aspx

Page updated: September 16, 2011