Internship General Curriculum

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Traditional Rotating Internship. The traditional rotating internship is utilized by those graduates where career specialties require a broad-based general rotating internship as a preliminary entry requirement.

This internship includes:

• At least six months of exposure in any or all basic core disciplines. These include general internal medicine, general surgery, family practice, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology (ambulatory gynecology) and emergency medicine.
• No less than two months of exposure in general internal medicine.
• One month exposure in emergency medicine.
• At least one month in family practice in a hospital or ambulatory site or one-half day per week for a minimum of 46 weeks of ambulatory exposure in a family practice continuity of care type practice site.
• No more than three months of elective exposure adequate to meet the individual needs of the interns and approved by the DME/internship program director.
• All remaining time may be scheduled at the discretion of the base institution.
• No more than one month may be spent in non-clinical experience (research, scholarly pursuits, administration, etc.).
• Exposure must occur to support the disciplines of pathology, radiology, and anesthesiology. This may occur directly by rotation or indirectly by formal didactic conferences and/or exposure while on medical and surgical services. This exposure must be verified on intern logs.