The Department of Medicine will provide its residents with the experience and educational opportunities necessary to master the following general objectives, to include the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for competence in Internal Medicine:

Knowledge
The Department will maintain and administer a curriculum (didactics, small group sessions, teaching rounds, critical appraisal of the literature, Grand Rounds and regular morning report sessions where differential diagnoses as well as management are discussed) for the purpose of imparting medical knowledge necessary for superior medical practice. It is the combined responsibility of the resident as well as the Department to ensure residents are exposed to current medical knowledge sufficient to pass the ABIM certification exam following residency.

Skills
A formal process will be maintained in order to teach, observe and evaluate residents’ skills in history taking, physical examination, diagnosis generation, patient management, literature search and review, scholarly activity, and technical/procedural abilities.

Mechanisms to teach, observe and evaluate residents’ competency in skills (“outcomes”) will be specifically delineated for each rotation and will be available to each resident.

Attitudes
The Department will support the development of superior professional behavior and attitudes toward patients, colleagues, staff, administration and learners at all times. The following are the basic tenets of the Code of Professionalism of the Georgetown Internal Medicine Residency:

1. The well-being of patients is paramount.

2. The doctor-physician relationship is sacred and is based upon mutual trust.

3. As adult learners, residents must be self-motivated in the thirst for medical knowledge.

4. Every patient deserves equal treatment, and every patient encounter should be considered a learning experience.

5. Residents must be compassionate, patient, honest and practice medicine with appropriate humility.

6. Residents must recognize their limitations and seek assistance when the need arises.

7. Residents must recognize cultural, religious, and other personal differences between patients’ ideals and their physician’s, and respect these preferences as they relate to medical care.

8. Residents must remember that doctor = teacher, and take responsibility for the education of students as well as other physicians.

9. Residents must take direct responsibility for each of their patients, along with faculty supervisors.

10. Residents must recognize the value of all members of the medical community, and treat each with respect.

Attitudes The Department will support the development of superior professional behavior and attitudes toward patients, colleagues, staff, administration and learners at all times. The following are the basic tenets of the Code of Professionalism of the Georgetown Internal Medicine Residency:

Attitudes
The Department will support the development of superior professional behavior and attitudes toward patients, colleagues, staff, administration and learners at all times. The following are the basic tenets of the Code of Professionalism of the Georgetown Internal Medicine Residency: