Didactic Component
The Internal Medicine Residency provides multiple didactic conferences for information mastery. There are many facets to the conferences and their variety provides an interesting and diverse experience that complements the clinical training at Lehigh Valley Hospital.
The didactic conferences are scheduled every day from 12p-1p and on Wednesdays from 12p-3p (protected education time). These conferences include the following broad range of presentations: Core subspecialty lectures (annual lecture series), Presentations provided by residents, Medical Grand Rounds, Resident Report, Journal Club, Show & Tell, Schwartz Rounds, Resident Development seminars, Morbidity & Mortality conference and many subspecialty and special lectures. See didactic links for more information.
There is also a supplemental ambulatory didactic series scheduled for each cohort on their ambulatory week. This session occurs at the 17th street on Wednesday afternoon from 1p-3p and consists of a three year rotating cycle of common ambulatory topics in addition to annual procedure modules, video tape review sessions, and presentations on HIV medicine. For residents based at 17th street during the rest of the week, the Cedar Crest core lecture series is teleconferenced for convenience to 17th street to prevent excessive travel.
For the osteopathic physicians completing the tracking program, there are also OMM seminars that are teleconferenced from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM). These conferences include topics that range from the OMM Exam overview to specific evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of each anatomical group.
All lectures are taped and available to residents at any time. A warehouse of prior lectures is in the process of development and is expected to be up and running by the end of the 2008-2009 academic year.
