Pathology Fellowship

Blood Bank Transfusion Medicine Fellowship

DAILY CONFERENCES

MONDAY

7:30 a.m. Pathology Conference (1st & 3rd Monday)

7:30 a.m. Morning Report

11:00 a.m. Primary Care Conference

12:00 p.m. Morbidity & Mortality Conference (1st Monday)

12:00 p.m. Core Curriculum Noon Conference (2nd, 3rd & 4th Monday)

12:00 p.m. Noon Conference

TUESDAY

7:30 a.m. Morning Report

8:00 a.m. Behavioral Medicine Conference

11:00 a.m. Primary Care Conference

12:00 p.m. Core Curriculum Noon Conference

12:45 p.m. Ambulatory Morning Report

WEDNESDAY

8:00 a.m. Medical Grand Rounds

9:00 a.m. Autopsy Conference (1st & 3rd Wednesdays)

9:00 a.m. Morning Report (2nd & 4th Wednesdays)

11:00 a.m. Intern Intake Rounds

12:00 p.m. Journal Club (1st Wednesday)

12:00 p.m. Residents' Business Meeting (2nd, 3rd, & 4th Wednesdays)

THURSDAY

7:30 a.m. Morning Report

11:00 a.m. Primary Care Conference

12:00 p.m. Core Curriculum Noon Conference

FRIDAY

7:30 a.m. Morning Report

11:00 a.m. Primary Care Conference

12:00 p.m. Core Curriculum Noon Conference

ANNUAL/SEMI-ANNUAL CONFERENCES

Medical Education Workshop: This is a major yearly event designated to improve residency education at Baystate. Recent topics include methods for improving ethics teaching, bedside teaching, learning techniques for medical problem solving, feedback methods, communication, doctor-patient relationships, and developing a clinical competence evaluation system.

INTERN RETREATS:

Semi-annually, interns are relieved of their responsibilities, and meet with the Program Directors at an outside location to discuss the experiences of internship, career growth, and other pertinent topics of their choosing. Themes include "Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family", and "Becoming Supervisors/Leadership."

RESIDENT RETREATS:

Residents are relieved of their responsibilities, and meet with the firm Directors at an outside location for their annual retreat. Topics are career options, practice management and other topics. Themes include: "Leadership", "Career Planning", and "Job Skills".

CLINIC CONFERENCES:

Monday & Friday: Common Diseases Tuesday: Social Services & Practice Management Thursday: Cross Cultural Medicine/End-of-Life Case Conference Tuesday & Friday: Ambulatory Morning Report Monday through Friday: Post-Clinic Conference The General Medicine/Geriatrics Division also participates in Morning Report, organizes the regular resident noon conference schedule, and recently established its own weekly ambulatory medicine Morning Reports and Medical Grand Rounds.