Med-Peds Program Overview
This four year combined training program is designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience in both internal medicine and pediatrics such that graduating residents will have acquired the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to the effective practice of these two disciplines. Graduates of the program will be able to function as generalists in practice or in academic settings, but they will also be sufficiently prepared to enter fellowship training areas shared by the two disciplines.
The Med Peds Program has been constructed on the foundation of two very strong programs in internal medicine and pediatrics and provides each med peds resident with the same exceptional core skills and experiences as the categorical internal medicine and pediatrics residents while offering them the opportunity to explore their personal interests. The program structure allows adequate time to meet subspecialty and core requirements while allowing each resident the freedom to formulate their schedule to suit their individual needs and career goals.
For more details, please download our pdf of the 2010 Med Peds Training Program and Educational Goals.
Basic Structure of the Med Peds Residency Program
The first year of the residency is divided into alternating, 3-month blocks on internal medicine and pediatrics. Residents are collectively assigned to pediatric rotations for the first three months and then transition to internal medicine as a group for the subsequent three months. This pattern is repeated throughout the intern year, as well as throughout the following three years of the training program. Internship lasts 12 months, following which, residents proceed to more supervisory roles in internal medicine and pediatrics.
Beginning with the PGY-2, rotations are organized throughout the last three years (PGY-2, 3, and 4) of the residency such that every third month is an ambulatory/subspecialty rotation which combines internal medicine and pediatric experiences of a general and/or subspecialty nature. These rotations are known as "Med Peds Months". When feasible and appropriate, related internal medicine and pediatric experiences are scheduled together to facilitate cohesive education. Core inpatient rotations and other requirements are scheduled two months out of every three months throughout the final three years of the residency.
There are two half day continuity clinics per week housed at two University-based, combined med peds clinics through all four years of training. Beginning with the first year, all residents are assigned to each of the two combined internal medicine and pediatric clinic sites. Residents are assigned to one clinic at the University of Utah Health Network Clinic at the Redwood Center (UUHN RWC), and one clinic at the University of Utah Health Network Clinic at the Westridge Center (UUHN WRC). Residents maintain these appointments throughout the four years of training. Both clinic sites are supervised by dually certified clinical faculty in internal medicine and pediatrics. Having each resident appointed to both med peds continuity clinic sites allows the residents the opportunity to interface with two different med peds faculty, learn from each and benefit from their respective strengths and interests. In addition to supervising resident clinics, the faculty orchestrates and mediates the weekly ambulatory med peds conference series which takes place at the beginning of each Thursday afternoon clinic prior to the start of patient care.
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