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Resident attendance is mandatory
at the Departmental Morning Conference, which is held daily (except Wednesdays),
as this conference is a critical vehicle for resident education. Residents whose
patients are scheduled for simulation that day present their cases. Questions are
posed by the attendings to the residents and vice-versa. As the residents proceed
through each year of training, the questions become increasingly more challenging
in an attempt to foster critical thought on the part of the residents and help them
become familiar and comfortable with the Oral Board format. Through the presentation,
question, and discussion process, residents learn to analyze a patient's condition
and apply evidence-based medicine to propose a plan of management, tailored appropriately
to the individual, including potential benefits, risks, alternatives and outcomes.
This is one of the forums that give the faculty as a group the chance to assess
not only whether the residents are formulating treatment plans that are supported
by data, but also whether residents are progressively assuming responsible for
direct patient care, have demonstrated respect for the needs of the individual
patient, established a therapeutic relationship with the patient which will
ensure compliance with the treatment plan, and demonstrated responsiveness
to the patient's cultural differences which may influence the overall care
of the patient.
Grand Rounds are held in association with Medical Oncology on a weekly
basis. At that time, a visiting lecturer delivers a formal lecture followed
by a question-and-answer period. Separate lecture series are held in radiation
physics and radiation biology. Numerous interdepartmental conferences occur
weekly, and residents’ schedules
are tailored to permit them to participate in all of them over the course
of the program.
As part of the clinical core rotations, each resident will spend time at Bellevue
Hospital, where he or she will assume greater responsibility for patient care,
consulting with attending physicians as appropriate. The tendency of the Bellevue
patient population to present with more advanced tumors will permit the resident
to see the natural history of untreated disease and will challenge the resident's
resourcefulness in terms of designing and implementing appropriate treatment
plans. All treatment for Bellevue patients is given at Tisch Hospital under
the direct control of the resident. Consultations, clinics, etc. are done at
Bellevue. The proximity of the two hospitals enables the resident to move freely
between the two.
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