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Unique Educational Opportunities 

An abundance of teaching conferences augments extensive hands-on education at UC San Diego. 

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Med-Peds 

Med Peds “School” is a protected academic half day occurring twice per year for all med peds residents, and covers topics requested by our residents and is focused on primary care and health equity. 

Med Peds Monthly Meetings are educational meetings that occur once per month at a residents’ home over dinner with topics relevant to Med-Peds, including journal club, sessions on transitional care, career night, narrative medicine, and more. These are attended by residents and med peds faculty. 

 

Internal Medicine (IM) 

At UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and at the VA San Diego Healthcare System Medical Center, we have a variety of teaching conferences. The following teaching conferences are held at all sites: 

  • Medicine Grand Rounds are held virtually once a week on Wednesday afternoons where faculty and housestaff join to hear speakers who are nationally recognized in their fields of expertise. 
  • Noon Conference occurs Monday through Thursday at Hillcrest and VA medical centers features an interactive, case-based didactic on inpatient or outpatient care with an expert guest speaker in the field.  
  • Resident "School" is a unique aspect of the internal medicine program and is a mandatory 2–4 hour block of protected time for teaching on Wednesday mornigs for residents, and Friday afternoons for interns.  
  • For Intern Friday School, interns on inpatient wards, consults and outpatient rotations are excused for the afternoon to attend this didactic curriculum.  
  • For resident Wednesday School, residents on outpatient or consult rotations are excused to attend.  
  • School topics are varied and include general medicine and subspecialty topics as well as innovative themes, such as bedside ultrasound (including an end-of-year exam on real patients on bedside ultrasound basics), teaching in medicine, business of medicine, wellness, and more. 
  • Excellence in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (EQIPS) are patient safety presentations given by a resident mentored by a faculty member in order to improve systems or processes to improve patient care (this is the equivalent of a Morbidity and Mortality conference on internal medicine.  
  • Intern Report is held once weekly at both the VA Medical Center and the Hillcrest campus. This provides a low-stress environment for high-yield learning amongst our program's interns. 
  • Morning report was removed per residents’ request in 2022 to allow more time with patients in the mornings on wards. 

IM EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES 

 

Pediatrics 

  • Pediatrics Grand Rounds is held on Friday mornings and features nationally renowned speakers, Health Equity Grand Rounds and ground-breaking research.  
  • Noon Conference occurs Monday through Thursday at Rady’s and consists of case-based or subspecialty didactics led by the chief residents with faculty speakers. 
  • Graduating residents also present a case presentation called a Clinical Pathologic Correlate during noon conference 
  • Morbidity and Mortality conferences are held once monthly 
  • Resident “School” is a protected half day didactic that occurs once monthly for interns, with a separate day for PGY2 and above residents. These sessions range from subspecialty topics, to DEI, ultrasound, global medicine, and more.  
  • On the Primary Care Clinic rotation, outpatient didactics are given every morning prior to clinic. 

 

 

Pediatrics Conferences & Events

 

 

Medicine-Pediatrics & Pediatrics

Innovative Quality Improvement Research in Residency (INQUIRY) Program

The Innovative Quality Improvement Research in Residency (INQUIRY) Program is an innovative quality improvement (QI) seminar series that is offered through the Pediatrics program. All Med-Peds and Peds residents are required to complete this training, which is done during School time on pediatrics. QI is a life-long skill that is important to learn as part of any medical practice and for maintenance of board certification. Upon completion of this QI seminar series, residents are given a certificate of completion in QI education that can be valuable when applying for jobs after residency.