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)

All of the R1s attend an evening (complete with food) with the Program Director and a senior resident. R1s learn the duties of a senior resident including how to present to attendings at night, guidelines for calls, covering clinic patient calls, etc. In addition, they identify traits they wish to emulate as a senior resident and those they will avoid. Leadership of a team is discussed and they troubleshoot potential problems inherent in a team. This work is continued in the Teach the Teacher workshop.

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.