Coronary Care Unit Service
The Coronary Care Unit Service has 4 admitting teams, each consisting of one resident, one intern, and one or two fourth-year medical students. One team admits each 24 hours; the average number of patients admitted is 4 to 7 per day. Interns and residents each receive one day off per week. Outstanding invasive and noninvasive support is available. Two attendings and two fellows staff this service. |
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Pulmonary/MICU Service
The Pulmonary Service has 4 admitting teams, ean consisting of one resident and one intern. One fellow is dedicated to this ervice And has an average of four to five patient admissions per day. The attending physician is a full-time member of the Pulmonary Division. There are fourteen beds in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Interns and residents each receive one day off per week. |
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Emergency Room Service
With one of the five busiest emergency rooms in the country, Parkland offers a tremendous opportunity for exposure to a vast array of medical illnesses of every degree of severity. The intern makes the initial assessment of patients under the tutelage of residents and faculty assigned to that area. Interns generally are assigned to 16 twelve-hour shifts per month. Residents work approximately 18, 10-12 hour shifts during a 4 week rotation. A $4.8 million renovation of the facility has recently been completed. |
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Medicine Clinic
Residents are assigned to Medicine Clinic for 1/2 day per week while on ward rotation, 1/2 day per rotation while on a CCU or MICU rotation, and one full day per week while on an ER subspecialty or outpatient rotation. This provides an opportunity to follow patients longitudinally and to develop further skills in outpatient medicine. Recent completion of the $4.5 million off-campus Bluitt-Flowers Health Center, the keystone of Parkland's Community Oriented Primary Care System, has reduced congestion in the ambulatory care areas in the hospital. Similar to other training programs, emphasis is increasingly placed on the skills required to deliver superb ambulatory care. |
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