Conferences and Seminars

In addition to morning report and rounds, the Emory program provides core conferences for a minimum of 150 hours per year of conference-based educational experience. We expect each resident to attend at least 60% of these conferences.

The core conference series covers the major topics in general internal medicine, including issues arising in ambulatory and extended care settings and the internal medicine subspecialties. The conference series is described briefly below and in more detail in the subsequent curriculum sections:

  1. Core lectures (Tues 12-1:00pm)
  2. Medical Grand Rounds (Tues 7:30-8:30 am): September - July
  3. Clinic Conference (12:30pm-1:30pm each clinic day)
  4. Journal Club Conference once monthly
  5. M & M/CPC Conference once monthly
  6. Quality Improvement Curriculum

The core conference series is a 2-year rotating curriculum and is available for review on tape, electronically, and via handout to afford each resident an opportunity to attend or review most of the core conference topics. The curriculum includes the interdisciplinary topics such as adolescent medicine, clinical ethics, medical genetics, quality assessment, quality improvement, risk management, preventive medicine, medical informatics and decision- making skills, law and public policy, pain management, end-of-life care, domestic violence, physician impairment, and substance-use disorders. The conferences include information from the basic medical sciences, with emphasis on the pathophysiology of disease and reviews of recent advances in clinical medicine and biomedical research.

Faculty members are directly involved with the core conferences including journal club sessions emphasizing critical appraisal of the medical literature and evidence based medicine; clinical pathologic conferences correlating current pathological material, (including material from autopsies, surgical specimens, and other pathology material), with the clinical course and management of patients; and clinical quality improvement (morbidity and mortality) conferences focusing on adverse clinical events on the teaching services. At Morbidity and Mortality conferences, faculty and residents jointly analyze the causes and consequences of each event, and propose actions to avoid recurrence of similar events.

Conference Schedules

Core lectures (Tues 12:00noon-1:00pm): At All Hospitals

Medical Grand Rounds (Tues 7:30-8:30 am): At All Hospitals, September - July

Clinic Conference (12:30pm-1:30pm) Each Clinic Day

Journal Club conference once monthly

M & M/CPC (12:00-1:00 pm) conference once monthly

Quality Improvement Curriculum 12-1pm once monthly