CONFERENCES

 

• Morning reports and subspecialty/general medicine conferences are conducted daily at both CRMC and
  VACCHCS.
• Medicine Grand Rounds is conducted weekly.
• Monthly mortality conferences.
• EKG course is offered each summer.
• The weekly UCSF Fresno Wednesday Lecture Series hosts faculty from UC San Francisco as speakers in Fresno on various topics.
• Multi-disciplinary conferences, such as Chest Conference and Tumor Board occur several times a month.
• Bi-weekly evidence-based medicine journal clubs are held at both hospitals. These conferences are designed to help the resident acquire the skills of evidence-based medicine using current journal articles.
• Chief’s rounds with Dr. Michael Peterson, focusing on physical diagnostic skills and diagnostic reasoning occur weekly at both CRMC and VACCHCS.
• Housestaff are invited to attend UCSF-sponsored continuing medical education programs free of charge.

 

 

The following table lists the core conference schedule at both CRMC and the VA.  Most conferences are teleconferenced between the two hospitals.

 

 

	VACCHCS	CRMC
Monday Morning Report Noon Conference (12-1pm)	Chief's Rounds (7am-8am) Grand Rounds	ICU morning report (8am-9am) Grand Rounds
Tuesday Morning Report Noon Conference (12-1pm)	Intern's Morning Report Core Lecture	Intern's Morning Report Core Lecture
Wednesday Morning Report Noon Conference (12-1pm)	EBM/Resident’s Morning Report UCSF Special Lecture	EBM/Resident’s Morning Report UCSF Special Lecture
Thursday Morning Report Noon Conference (12-1pm)	Radiology Series Core Lecture	Chest Conference Core Lecture
Friday Morning Report Noon Conference (12-1pm)	Specialties Morning Report Core Lecture	Chief's Rounds Core Lecture Core Lecture

 

 

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds:

 

Speakers are UCSF Fresno faculty and visiting professors presenting topics concerning their research and clinical interests with an important emphasis on evidence base medicine (EBM)

 

 

 

Morning Teaching Conference:

 

Morning report is led by either the chief resident or an attending. Tuesday morning report is exclusively for interns and we cover basic topics related to the most common diseases; the first and third Wednesday of the month is the Resident Rounds, presented by either a second or third year resident and led by both chief residents and attending; the second and fourth Wednesday of the month is program director led the evidence based medicine (EBM) workshop.

Noon Conference:

 

Conferences are given by faculty members covering core internal medicine topics. Like COPD, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, acute coronary syndrome, ARDS, congestive heart failure, pulmonary embolism, diabetes, thyroid pathology, acute and chronic kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, and so forth. All the different topics include cases and interactive participation of the residents.

Outpatient Didactics:

 

In both VA and CRMC all residents are required to present a 30 minutes lecture about a topic related to ambulatory care. The conference is led by the intern/resident who is on clinic that month