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Common Citation in Internal Medicine
Residents routinely are required to provide intravenous, phlebotomy, or messenger/transporter services (II.A.2.a). When averaged over any four-week rotation or assignment, residents spend more than 80 hours per week in patient care duties (II.A.2.i). When averaged over any four-week rotation or assignment, residents do not have at least one day out of seven free of patient care duties (II.A.2.k). All faculty members do not review the written learning objectives and expectations for each rotation or assignment with residents at the beginning of the rotation or assignment (III.A.2.e). Residents do not have sufficient experience in neurology, psychiatry, dermatology, medical ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, orthopedics, and rehabilitation medicine to become familiar with those aspects of care in each specialty area that are diagnosed and managed by general internists and with those that should be referred to, or managed jointly with, other specialists (V.H.11.a). Residents do not review the gross pathological and/or histological specimens soon after autopsies are performed on their patients and do not review the autopsy reports (IV.F.2). A program's graduates did not achieve a pass rate on the certifying examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine of at least 50 percent for first-time takers of the examination for the most recent defined three-year period (VI.B.2.a). Residents are not evaluated in writing and their performance review with them verbally on completion of each rotation period (VI.A.1.e). Residents do not have formal instruction and regular, supervised clinical experience in geriatric medicine (V.H.8.a). The emergency medicine rotations are not conducted in accordance with a written curriculum (V.H.4.e). |
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