Specialized Tracks

Hospitalist Track

The Hospitalist Track is a longitudinal elective pathway for Internal Medicine residents interested in careers in hospital-based medicine. The track provides structured training in both the clinical and non-clinical skills essential to hospitalist practice, including utilization management, billing and documentation, hospital operations, quality improvement, leadership, and career development. Residents complete focused hospital medicine electives and participate in a dedicated Hospitalist Didactic Week covering topics not routinely emphasized during residency, such as contract negotiation, hospital finance, and health systems science. Elective experiences can be tailored to individual interests, including medical education, research, consult medicine, community hospital practice, nocturnist exposure, and bedside teaching. Each resident has longitudinal guidance, career planning support, and professional development throughout residency. Graduates of the track are well prepared for academic or community hospitalist careers and will graduate with a Distinction in Hospital Medicine.

Medical Education Track

Teaching is an integral part of the life of a physician, and this begins as early as intern year with having medical students on service. To this end we have developed the Medical Education Track.  This is led by our Assistant Program Directors, Dr. Solomon Dawson and Dr. Hely Shah. The track is offered to the second- and third-year residents. The core of this elective dedicates time to prepare and deliver educational lectures to a variety of learners such as our co-residents and medical students of all levels. There are also opportunities to work more closely with medical students in simulation lab sessions and act as a preceptor in the Camden medical student clinic. Residents on this elective will receive real time feedback from faculty to get those who are new to teaching comfortable with their new roles as educators in an academic institution, and help seasoned teachers push themselves to refine their skills. This is combined with a week of didactic lectures about various theories of medical education. The lectures are given by our faculty, many of whom are involved in Medical Education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This elective will help train the next generation of medical educators.

Ultrasound Track

Through a partnership with the Division of Critical Care Medicine, our residency has implemented a point-of-care ultrasound course to educate residents in this important and growing field. Led by ultrasound-trained Critical Care and Internal Medicine faculty, residents learn image acquisition, diagnostic techniques, and ultrasound-guided procedures in a longitudinal course. The course spans several organ systems and is designed to aid residents’ diagnostic and management decisions at the bedside.