Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum – Norton

Norton Community Hospital

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Norton Community Hospital is a traditional track three-year training program.

• Selective options:
  • Radiology
  • Wound care
  • Continuity clinic
• Elective options
  • Inpatient cardiology
  • Anesthesia
  • Interdisciplinary leadership
  • Pulmonology/Critical care (ETSU)
  • Pain management and rehabilitation services
  • Clinical informatics

Residents can choose electives in any “required” rotation for additional experience.

Didactic Schedule

• Targeted Learning Objectives and Guideline Based Teaching – Reviewing highest yield information in a setting where residents and attendings give their input, targeting MKSAP and guideline based medical knowledge from IDSA, CHEST, AHA, ASN, for ABIM and enhancement of medical knowledge.
• Ambulatory Medicine Series – Real or clinical pearls and developing framework for common problems encountered in the outpatient setting with focus on specialist input, such as cardiology, pulmonary or palliative care
• Point of care ultrasound series (POCUS) – Introductory lectures and workshop sessions with hand on ultrasound training to enhance the ultrasound skills used in residency programs
• Simulation labs & Code Blue training – Practical training skills to enhance skills such as intubation, central lines, needle decompression, lumbar puncture and arterial blood gas.
• Practice Changing updates – Topics covered outside of traditional medicine (billing, note writing, financial planning, hospice, resources, etc.)
• Interactive series & games – Interactive case presentations from leading, cutting edge software such as Human Dx, NEJM Resident 360+; games, including medical trivia, medical jeopardy, medical who wants to be a millionaire, medical spin the wheel for interactive learning and team based environment
• Board Review – Using high yield resources which are available to every resident for board exams such as UWorld, MKSAP, NEJM, AMBOSS, board review
• Morbidity & Mortality Review – Excellent learning opportunities to review from adverse patient outcome in a protected learning environment
• More than Medicine – Topics covered up outside of traditional medicine which prepared residents for real world practice such as billing, coding, financial planning and more
• Reserved wellness days – Wellness activities from the Social and Wellness Committee

Didactic overview [PDF]

Day-to-day schedule

• Monday – Targeted learning objectives and guidline-based teaching
• Tuesday – More than medicine topic, practice changing updates
• Wednesday – Interactive series and games, case presentations by residents and students
• Thursday – Targeted learning objectives, ambulatory medicine series, reserve wellness days
• Friday – Board review, morbidity and mortality review

American Board of Internal Medicine policies & procedures for certification

As of November 2024, in addition to the primary certificate in internal medicine, ABIM certifies physicians in the following subspecialties:

• Adolescent medicine
• Adult congenital heart disease
• Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology
• Cardiovascular disease
• Clinical cardiac electrophysiology
• Critical care medicine
• Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatric medicine
• Hematology
• Hospice and palliative medicine
• Infectious disease
• Interventional cardiology
• Medical oncology
• Nephrology
• Neurocritical care
• Pulmonary disease
• Rheumatology
• Sleep medicine
• Transplant hepatology