The firm system encompasses the teaching and patient care activities of the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Firm System Highlights

• All residents, faculty and patients are assigned to a firm.
• Each firm is structured as a group practice, with shared responsibility for learning and patient care.
• Firms are geographic, with each firm admitting patients to a single hospital floor.
• Residents are responsible only for patients admitted to their own firms.
• Firms have continuity of care responsibility for their outpatients and inpatients.
• Firms encourage an interdisciplinary team approach to learning and patient care.
• Firms emphasize collegiality, mutual support, teamwork and camaraderie.