Residents have multiple opportunites for learning during afternoon reports, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds,  Morbidity and Mortality Conferences, journal clubs, and our own academic half day.

We offer protected half days on Thursday afternoons for residents to engage with our internal medicine curriculum. The academic year kicks off with bootcamp, where interns and residents are split to get dedicated time to practice skills pertinent to their level of training. These sessions focus on Point Of Care Ultrasounds (POCUS), procedures, simulation, and essential skills in efficiency and communication. After bootcamp, the majority of the educational half days are devoted to our core internal medicine curriculum - designed to train residents as excellent internists and help them prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Exam.

The first half of the year focuses on common internal medicine diagnoses and medical emergencies that residents will encounter most frequently in the hospital. The remainder of the year is devoted to expanded topics within each subspecialty. The curriculum repeats twice over a three-year period to ensure that residents can engage with each topic several times over the course of their residency. In addition to this core internal medicine content, our Thursday School curriculum also includes dedicated board review sessions, house officer meetings, and conferences focused on topics in DEI, communication, and quality improvement.

Afternoon report takes place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at both the University Hospital and the VA. It primarily includes case-based discussions presented by upper-levels on wards as well as sessions focused on board review using games, Master Clinician series with subspecialists presenting interesting cases, quality improvement didactics, and so much more! We find this time to be ideal for our seniors to learn how to engage an audience and teach their peers in a low-stress environment using innovative techniques.

During dedicated Yweeks, our outpatient faculty follow an outpatient didactic curriculum, given prior to clinic sessions. It covers core primary care topics and follows the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) curriculum in a structured format

Interns are engaged in learning about Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) during dedicated Thursday School sessions and will complete the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) basic certificate by the end of their first year. Upper levels are expected to start a QIPS project during their second year with continuous Patient Data Safety Analysis (PDSA) cycles enacted during their third year. Thursday School sessions for upper-levels will focus on workshopping these experiences. During Yweeks, one half day will be dedicated to QIPS projects.

Our QIPS Chief Residents at UNM and the VA will service as a resource, with the goal of presenting completed projects at local and national conferences. In addition, Morbidity & Mortality Conferences are held monthly in place of Afternoon Report, allowing residents to engage directly in Root Cause Analyses while learning about opportunities for improvement.