Providence Portland Medical Center focuses on providing our residents with the depth and breadth of experiences that will build a foundation for success. Our planning process is rigorous, attracts active resident input and allows our residency to continually evolve to meet the individual needs of each resident.
Our curriculum follows a four week plus two week block cycle. Four week rotations are inpatient wards, ICU, Night Float, or inpatient electives. There are no continuity clinics during this time, so that residents can focus on their learning.
The 2 week blocks are called integrated clinic blocks (i-blocks). These blocks are comprised of eight to nine half-days of continuity clinic and seven to eight half days of outpatient subspecialty clinics.
Learning Labs occur in four sessions over this two weeks and is protected didactic time. Each intern and resident is part of a longitudinal cohort that follows the same four + two cycle. The learning labs will cover various topics. It is both an opportunity to cover ambulatory topics, but also be able to do more time-intensive workshops. The 4:2 schedules also give predictability in being able to work on longitudinal scholarly activity and research. We have built in some dedicated time within the curriculum, but the standard scheduling will make it easier to use the time outside of duty-hours.
Rotation (weeks)
First Year
Second Year
Third Year
Inpatient Wards
20
18
12
Night Float
4
4
4
ICU
6
6
6
Emergency Medicine
None
2
2
Subspecialty/Electives
12
16
22
Procedures Rotation
2
NA
NA
Intro to Outpatient Medicine
2
NA
NA
Vacation
6
6
6
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
