Internal Medicine at San Francisco

Internal Medicine Resident Rotation Schedule

The first year of training, while focusing mainly on inpatient care, is designed to introduce interns to the concept of an integrated health care delivery system.


The categorical year consists of:
2 months - ICU/CCU
5 months - General Medicine Wards
0.5-1 month - Night Float
0.5 month - Emergency Medicine
1 month - Ambulatory Care block
3 months - Elective Rotations


The preliminary year consists of:
2 months - ICU/CCU
6 months - General Medicine Wards
0.5-1 month - Night Float
0.5 month - Emergency Medicine
3 months - Elective Rotations

During the Ambulatory Care block, interns participate in patient education (diabetes care, asthma, cholesterol management, etc.) in addition to sessions in the Outpatient Medicine Clinic, the Chemical Dependency and Rehabilitation Program, and the Headache Clinic.


1-1.5 month - ICU/CCU
3 months - General Medicine Wards
1-1.5 month - Night Float
1.5 months - Senior Medical Resident
1 month - Ambulatory Care block
0.5 month Emergency Medicine
0.5 month - Medicine Consult
3 months - Elective Rotations



2 months - General Medicine Wards
0.5 month - Medicine Consult
2 months - Senior Medical Resident
1 month - Hospitalist Rotation
1 month - Community-Based Medicine
1 month - Ambulatory Care block
1 month - Subspecialty Ambulatory
3-3.5 months - Elective Rotations


There are three weeks of vacation each year, taken during elective rotations.