Didactic Curriculum - Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency
Our formal didactic curriculum allows residents to learn from expert teaching faculty while honing their own teaching skills. These didactics complement clinical learning and are scheduled to avoid intruding on clinical responsibilities.
Mortality and Morbidity conference (M&M)
Mortality and morbidity conferences provide a safe, non-judgmental forum in which residents and healthcare team members dissect and analyze patient cases to improve quality and safety. Residents present M&M cases with faculty support. As a group, we conduct root cause analyses, critically reviewing systems processes and generating real-world solutions.
Evidence-Based Medicine Journal Club
Residents present a high impact journal article for critical appraisal and discussion. Residents and faculty appraise publications for their validity, impact to practice and applicability to local patient populations.
Morning Reports
Residents and faculty attendings provide regular 30-minute chalk talks on rotating Internal Medicine topics. These reports are designed to provide clinical pearls which residents can incorporate into their immediate practice. There are separate Morning Report sessions for ambulatory and inpatient medicine rotations.
Quality Improvement
Our Quality Improvement curriculum is based on Institute for Healthcare Improvement tenets and incorporates LEAN, DMAIC and other methodologies. Residents work as a group to develop and implement quality improvement projects longitudinally.
Mock Code and Procedural Workshops
Myriad hands-on procedural workshops and mock codes are conducted in our state-of-the-art Simulation Center throughout the year.