Conferences

Conferences

• Board Review - Value packed lectures with emphasis on ITE objectives, board testing techniques and review of multiple choice questions.
• House Staff Meeting - A monthly meeting of all TTUHSC residents sponsored by the office of GME. This meeting serves to update house staff on important institutional issues. Elected officers of the house staff serve as liaisons on many institutional committees.
• Weekly Report - A case is prepared by a resident in advance of the conference. Emphasis is placed on oral presentation, work-up, and differential diagnosis. The resident delivers a brief, updated aspect of the presentation topic.
• Business of Medicine - Emphasis on billing and system based practices of clinical internal medicine.
• Patient Safety - Case-based medical conference that emphasizes challenges or adverse outcomes associated with system interactions in medical care.
• Journal Club - Residents discuss selected articles. Emphasis is on commentary and critical appraisal of the literature.
• Grand Rounds - These are conducted by the Department of Medicine and other institutional faculty as well as visiting professors. Topics include advances in basic and clinical knowledge in many fields on Internal Medicine.
• Morbidity and Mortality - A noon conference series where third-year residents present specific cases for presentation under the supervision of a faculty member.
• Subspecialty Conference - Each subspecialty division is assigned to a particular month and faculty from that subspecialty give a series of 3 to 4 case-based, interactive conferences.