Internal Medicine
Teaching
Purple Team
The purple inpatient team is a novel approach to assisting the senior resident develop skills to manage a team as well as learn/practice educational techniques. This year, this team is changing into an admission-only team to hone triage and admission skills and to improve workflow of the rounding housestaff teams.
Spokane 10
Our residents and faculty consider these 10 diagnoses to be the cornerstone to internal medicine. We encourage every R1 to master this list – everything from epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
- Diabetes/DKA
- COPD/asthma
- Sepsis
- Afib
- Cirrhosis
- ACS (includes STEMI, NSTEMI)
- Stroke
- GI Bleed
- AKI/CKD
- PE/DVT
ACLS
Residents are the hospital code team and are kept up-to-date in ACLS training. The program provides supplemental training (advanced airway management, pharmacology and cardiac rhythm lectures, interdisciplinary code team training) to truly prepare our residents to feel confident running codes.
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Contact Us
101 W. 8th Ave.
Spokane, WA 99204
For more information:
Email: Teri Yaeger
ACLS-EP
Second year residents take an ACLS-EP course given by the IMRS faculty.
- Provides recertification for ACLS (IMRS pays for the course and cards)
- Allows exploration of in-depth, but less common ACLS scenarios
- Hypothermia
- Toxins, including poisoning
- Severe asthma management
- Lightning strikes
- Advanced electrolyte abnormalities
- Advanced airway procedures(using pig tracheas for cricothyroidotomies)
IMRS Faculty
IMRS is fortunate to have a faculty dedicated solely to medical education. They are creative and innovative in their approach to medicine and are interested in each learner.
“The faculty are so deliberate on providing us as many useful learning opportunities as possible while also actively seeking our feedback.”
Transition To Senior Resident
Teach The Teacher Workshop
Annual workshop organized by faculty and fellows, geared specifically to give tools for success for senior residents.
Topics include:
- Teaching skills for senior residents
- Grading, teaching and managing medical students
- Dealing with difficult interns and faculty
- Being an effective senior on night float
- Conflicts at the workplace
- Managerial skills for senior residents
Humanities
IMRS provides a vital Medical Humanities curriculum, built on evidence of clinically-relevant empathy and adult learning of “theory of mind.” Noon conferences use narrative literature to examine our own stances and assumptions, and navigate difficult ethical and clinical situations. Social science elements build cultural humility and required care competencies. The history of medical thought illuminates physicians’ moral and functional role in society. Physical examination skills are taught using in part art-based habits of observation and interpretation. Centrally, IMRS emphasizes Medicine itself as an Art, a set of actions to be practiced and performed, rather than just a body of facts to be known.
IMRS faculty maintain an active education-research program on the impact of humanities work on clinical performance and human empathy. We encourage our residents to participate in scholarly activity, research, publications and presentations in this arena, along with their other clinical interest topics.