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Patient Population
A diverse case mix comes from Greenwich and surrounding Fairfield and Westchester counties. Most social and ethnic groups are represented. Rare cases that are worthy of publication in the medical literature are encountered at Greenwich Hospital and Yale New Haven Health tertiary care sites. Hospital and program leadership are fully committed to diversity, equity and inclusion through system-enhanced initiatives to support residents, staff and patients.
Yale School of Medicine Affiliation
Formally affiliated since 1975. Over 110 contact sessions each year between Yale faculty and Greenwich Hospital residents. Elective time may be scheduled at Yale (only in PGY II and PGY III years). Yale students rotate at Greenwich Hospital on inpatient rotations.
Resident Responsibility
Residents are expected to write all orders on their patients. Local and annual ACGME resident surveys demonstrate a high level of satisfaction with the level of decision-making autonomy provided by the program, the overall workload, learning environment and resident wellness.
Faculty
There are well over 100 Greenwich Hospital internists representing all specialties who directly support the residency program, including nine who dedicate 100 percent of their professional effort to the education and welfare of the residents.
Academic Hospitalist Program
Hospitalists provide direct patient care and teaching for patients on resident inpatient floor services. Two of three floor teams are supervised by academic hospitalists dedicated to medical education, with defined time commitments for academics including mentoring, evaluation and scholarship.
Resident Wellbeing
Ancillary support services are available 24 hours a day. These include: comfortable on-call rooms with lockers, networked computers and televisions; subsidized hospital housing (subject to taxes and utilities); monthly meal stipend; newly designed dedicated resident lounge and resident workrooms; financial support for electives taken at Yale, research endeavors and board review courses; four free wellness half days offered for self-care during outpatient ambulatory medicine rotations; opt-out Wellness Check-ins with Employee Family Resources program; Yale Resident-led Housestaff Wellness Council with dedicated Faculty Advisor; and opportunity for leadership development led by Yale Institute for Excellence..
Simulation Center
Greenwich Hospital actively incorporates simulation as an education strategy. Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), provides hands-on training to prepare trainees for the challenges of complex medical management. The facility has high-fidelity mannequins with sophisticated audiovisual systems and multiple camera views, in addition to simultaneous on- screen viewing of video and patient vital signs. The debriefing is designed to facilitate discussion and encourage participants to evaluate their own performance.
A Point of Care Ultrasound Simulator is available to augment Mega-Code simulations and hands on POCUS education.
Chief Resident Opportunities
The Greenwich Hospital/Yale University Program selects one PGY-4 chief resident every year. Resident physicians apply during their PGY-2 year. Clinical responsibilities of the position are primarily ambulatory (outpatient internal medicine), but well-established opportunities exist to “moonlight” on the Greenwich Hospital internal medicine hospitalist service. Most of our PGY-4 chief residents have been Greenwich Hospital internal medicine residents (“internal candidates”) for the position, but outside candidates from other residency programs are encouraged to apply. In addition to clinical duties, the chief resident serves as a junior faculty member in our residency program and typically achieves a voluntary faculty appointment as Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
