Didactic Curriculum - Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency

Our formal didactic curriculum allows residents to learn from expert teaching faculty while honing their own teaching skills. Engaging lectures and workshops are provided by a variety of speakers across myriad disciplines and specialties. These didactics are meant to complement clinical learning and scheduled to avoid intruding on clinical responsibilities.

Mortality and Morbidity conference (M&M)

Mortality and morbidity conferences provide a safe, non-judgmental forum in which residents and healthcare team members dissect and analyze patient cases to improve quality and safety. An emphasis is placed on conducting root cause analyses, critically reviewing systems processes and generating real-world solutions. Residents are tasked with presenting M&M cases with access to faculty support.

Evidence-Based Medicine Journal Club

Residents independently select a high impact journal for critical appraisal and discussion. Journal club is well attended by both residents and faculty attendings resulting in robust discussions focused on analyzing publications for their validity, impact to practice and applicability to local patient populations.

Ambulatory Patient Data Review

Categorical residents have their own ambulatory patient panel who they care for in their Continuity Clinic. Once yearly, residents are provided with outcome metrics for their patient panel and tasked with reviewing the data, characterizing trends and identifying areas for improvement. This process mirrors work done in both academic and private healthcare practices across the country and challenges our residents to utilize a growth-oriented mindset to tackle population health issues.

Morning Reports

Residents and faculty attendings provide regular 30-minute chalk talks on rotating Internal Medicine topics. These reports are designed to provide clinical pearls which residents can incorporate into their immediate practice. There are separate Morning Report sessions for ambulatory and inpatient medicine and residents attend during their corresponding Ambulatory Clinic and Inpatient Medicine rotations.