Home Careers & Education Graduate Medical Education Graduate Medical Education Programs Internal Medicine Residency Program Curriculum & Didactics – Internal Medicine Residency
Clinical rotations are designed to balance resident autonomy with strong support. Through a structured X+Y schedule, residents alternate between inpatient and elective rotations and dedicated outpatient clinic weeks, allowing full engagement in each setting. This intentional design provides exposure to complex inpatient care, continuity‑focused outpatient practice and longitudinal learning that prepares residents for a wide range of internal medicine careers.
Of note, all required clinical experiences except for neurology (which takes place at OHSU in Portland, housing is provided) are within the Corvallis area.
Below is a sample of our Internal Medicine curriculum for intern year. We provide residents with diverse and robust training experiences in both inpatient and outpatient settings to train confident internists.
Our inpatient training takes place at the flagship hospital of Samaritan Health Services, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. This 188‑bed hospital includes a 24‑bed ICU and serves as a Level II trauma center and referral hospital for four surrounding critical access hospitals.
Residents care for patients with a wide breadth of medical conditions. While on‑site subspecialty consultants are available; residents serve as the admitting and managing team for non‑surgical patients, ensuring ownership of patient care.
Residents work on academic inpatient teams composed of:
Attendings on academic teams are specifically selected for their commitment to resident education and bedside teaching.
Teams admit patients two days per week on a rotating schedule. On call days, interns typically admit two patients, allowing for a high‑yield balance of patient volume and protected time for learning. This structure maximizes clinical exposure while maintaining a sustainable workload.
We do not have 24‑hour shifts. Instead, residents rotate through night float in two‑week blocks. Night teams consist of:
These teams handle overnight admissions and provide cross‑coverage for the daytime academic teams, ensuring continuity of care and appropriate supervision.
Education is embedded into daily patient care. Residents and attendings actively participate in real‑time, “whiteboard” teaching on rounds, with brief, targeted mini‑lectures focused on conditions affecting current patients. This approach promotes practical learning that is immediately applicable at the bedside.
Our program uses an X+Y schedule, meaning residents participate in clinic every 4–5 weeks. During clinic weeks, residents spend four out of five days caring for their own continuity clinic (CC) patients in the outpatient clinic. The fifth day is dedicated to a longitudinal experience in geriatrics or rheumatology subspecialty clinics, board study, or scholarly activity work. This allows for focused learning in subspecialities where continuity of care is critical for disease management, scholarly exploration and board preparation.
The longitudinal experience varies by PGY year:
In addition, PGY‑2 residents participate in a Friday morning Pain Lecture series during designated clinic weeks.
During each assigned clinic week, residents spend one full day in their designated longitudinal experience:
PGY‑1 residents learn to navigate outpatient visits with a board‑certified geriatrician. Residents gain experience managing memory disorders, polypharmacy, functional decline, and prioritizing patient goals and values, including end‑of‑life decision‑making.
PGY‑2 residents manage their own panel of patients with autoimmune and rheumatologic diseases. This experience emphasizes diagnostic reasoning and allows residents to see how rheumatologic conditions evolve over time.
Residents have protected time to work with our research team, receiving guidance on developing, conducting, and completing scholarly projects. A CME stipend is provided that can be put toward publications and conferences, with additional support provided on a case-by-case basis.
As residents prepare for the ABIM board examination, PGY‑3s participate in an individualized board study curriculum:
Our clinic emphasizes team‑based care, with residents working closely alongside care coordinators, dedicated medical assistants, and triage LPNs to provide high‑quality, comprehensive care.
Our outpatient clinic is conveniently located on the hospital campus.
Residents care for their own patient panel, with a gradual increase in patient volume as they progress through residency.
We prioritize hospital follow‑up visits to ensure residents care for patients with the greatest internal medicine needs.
We offer the following elective experiences to allow residents to customize their educational experiences for their individual needs.
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