Curriculum

CARDIO INPATIENT
The general internal medicine physician is an essential part of the lifesaving treatment for the patients with who present with cardiovascular disease. The practicing internist must be able to stabilize and diagnose as well as treat the patients who present with a variety of symptoms from underlying cardiac disease including ischemic heart disease, valvular heart […]

Elective – PGY-1
Residents will chose from a variety of specialties and locations to gain additional training.

INPATIENT MEDICINE (BRASELTON)
Residents will be exposed to the common illnesses of hospitalized medicine, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

INPATIENT MEDICINE G1
During this rotation, residents will have the opportunity to participate with family meetings, interdisciplinary rounds, learn the skills of communication while expanding on their medical knowledge.

INPATIENT MEDICINE G2
During this rotation, residents will have the opportunity to participate with family meetings, interdisciplinary rounds, learn the skills of communication while expanding on their medical knowledge.

INPATIENT MEDICINE G3
Residents will be exposed to the common illnesses of hospitalized medicine, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

INPATIENT MEDICINE G4
During this rotation, residents will have the opportunity to participate with family meetings, interdisciplinary rounds, learn the skills of communication while expanding on their medical knowledge.

MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT 1
Residents will gain a fundamental knowledge of critical care medicine and competence in the essential skills of stabilizing and intervening in the care of critically ill patients for the first 24 hours until a medical intensive care specialist assumes care.

MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT 2
Residents will assess and care for the critically ill medical patient and manage patients in a tertiary care ICU setting as part of a multidisciplinary team, under the direct supervision of attendings with expertise in critical care medicine. NGMC provides a unique environment of diverse pathophysiology as well as patients from diverse communities, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

NEPHROLOGY
This rotation seeks to train the resident in both an inpatient and outpatient setting in the care of the patient with kidney disease.

NIGHT FLOAT
Residents will see the patient from the beginning of their hospitalization to discharge and learn the skills for history taking and physical examination, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials. Residents will order appropriate test to arrive at diagnosis, learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, and others.

PRIMARY CARE (AMBULATORY OFFICE)
The ambulatory rotation will provide a structured office setting experience in the management of out-patients in the field of Internal Medicine. It will provide residents with the appropriate tools to accurately assess and initiate appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers. This curriculum will also develop the skills necessary for residents to interact with others in the […]

COMMUNITY PRIMARY CARE (AMBULATORY OFFICE)
The ambulatory rotation exposes residents to different pathologies and incorporates skills and techniques to prepare them for the management of patients in an ambulatory setting. It provides a structured office setting experience in the management of out-patients in the field of Internal Medicine.

COMMUNITY PRIMARY CARE (PRIMARY CARE)
Residents will gain the wonderful experience of taking care of a community of patients and will focus on high-quality, cost-effective and customer-focused healthcare to residents at NGPG-Dahlonega. The residents will get to experience the love, loyalty and depth of gratitude that the people of Dahlonega have for their community Internist.

CRITICAL CARE
The vision of the cardiac care unit rotation is to expose the future practicing internist to the highly specialized and amazingly lifesaving world of intensive care cardiology. On this rotation, the resident will help manage the care of acutely ill cardiac patients with conditions including acute myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and unstable cardiac arrhythmias.

Elective – PGY-2
Residents will chose from a variety of specialties and locations to gain additional training.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE
The Emergency room experience will present residents with the challenge of working up undiagnosed or undifferentiated (acute or chronic or acute on chronic) illnesses. Residents will experience trauma as well as various types of procedures.

HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY
Through this rotation, residents will become familiar with common elements of the history, physical, differential diagnosis, and evaluation of hematology/oncology patients.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONSULTATION
Residents will become proficient in providing appropriate preventive (including optimal use of immunization and chemoprophylaxis), diagnostic, and therapeutic care for most infections. They will be able to evaluate symptoms that may be caused by a wide range of infectious disorders and will gain an understanding of appropriate antimicrobial use.

INPATIENT BRASELTON
This rotation's purpose is to allow our residents to be exposed to the common illnesses of hospitalized medicine, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis, and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

INPATIENT G1 G2 G3 G4
Residents will be exposed to the common illnesses of hospitalized medicine, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis, and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

INPATIENT G1 G2 G3 G4
Residents will be exposed to the common illnesses of hospitalized medicine, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis, and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT – SENIOR
This rotation will provide residents with a rigorous experience in the assessment and care of the critically ill medical patient and will manage patients in a tertiary care ICU setting as part of a multidisciplinary team, under the direct supervision of attendings with expertise in critical care medicine. Northeast Georgia provides a unique environment of diverse pathophysiology as well as patients from diverse communities, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

NEUROLOGY
The general internal medicine physician will be faced with numerous patients that present with neurologic complaints and conditions. It is the vision of this rotation to provide the resident physician with a variety of inpatient and outpatient acute and chronic neurologic conditions from which to learn and develop an experience incompetency in the care of […]

NIGHT FLOAT
This rotation's purpose is to allow residents to see the patient from the beginning of their hospitalization, learn the skills for history taking and physical examination, practice critical thinking and analysis to form logical differentials, order appropriate tests to arrive at diagnosis, and learn to communicate with other healthcare team members including nursing team, consultants, etc.

PULMONARY
Residents will gain the skills and knowledge to diagnose and treat lung disease. During this rotation residents will also develop experience in sleep medicine from a pulmonary sleep medicine perspective.

ADVANCED HOSPITALIST
This rotation's purpose is to allow our senior residents to have the opportunity to work one-on-one with an attending hospitalist. Residents will have the opportunity to further develop their clinical care and medical knowledge in hospital medicine, while learning to communicate and improve the pathway for continuity of care for the patient after discharge. Residents will also learn about the administrative and financial aspects of hospital care and have the opportunity for direct observation, bedside teaching and role modeling by the faculty.

CARDIOLOGY COMBINATION
This rotation will provide residents a more in-depth subspecialist experience for common cardiac conditions that are seen by the general internal medicine physician.

Elective – PGY-3
Residents will chose from a variety of specialties and locations to gain additional training.

ENDOCRINOLOGY
The educational purpose of this rotation is to teach residents the knowledge and skills within the medical specialty of endocrinology necessary for the management of general internal medicine patients. Residents will acquire skills sufficient to diagnose, follow, and treat patients with common endocrine disorders and recognize those patients that should be referred to endocrinologists.

GASTROENTEROLOGY
Residents will have the opportunity to consult on hospitalized patients referred by their primary care physicians regarding specific issues related to gastrointestinal problems that often include complex cases.

GERIATRICS
This rotation provides medical residents with knowledge necessary to evaluate and treat a diverse group of older adults over the age of 62, and those younger patients with complex medical co-morbidities that qualify for care on the Geriatric Medicine service. The rotation focuses on the seven domains of geriatric competencies: Complex or Chronic Illness(es) in Older Adults; Ambulatory care; Medication Management; Hospital Patient Safety; Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health; Transitions of Care; and Palliative and End of Life Care.

HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Through this rotation, residents will become familiar with common elements of the history, physical, differential diagnosis, and evaluation of hematology/oncology patients.

MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (BRASELTON)
Residents will achieve competence in the essential skills of stabilizing and intervening in the care of critically ill patients for the first 24 hours until a medical intensive care specialist assumes care. Residents will manage patients in a tertiary care ICU setting as part of a multidisciplinary team, under the direct supervision of attendings with expertise in critical care medicine.

MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (GAINESVILLE)
Residents will achieve competence in the essential skills of stabilizing and intervening in the care of critically ill patients for the first 24 hours until a medical intensive care specialist assumes care. Residents will manage patients in a tertiary care ICU setting as part of a multidisciplinary team, under the direct supervision of attendings with expertise in critical care medicine.

RHEUMATOLOGY
This rotation is designed to give the resident the best exposure to a vast variety of pathologies when it comes to rheumatology and will expose the resident not only to very interesting and vast immune rheumatologic conditions but will also expose the resident to very common and complicated conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. This rotation will also contain some exposure to musculoskeletal diseases.