Interns

A first year house officer is responsible for the direct care of inpatients on the medical floor service. He/She must discuss each case with the attending of record or his/her designate on the day of admission and on a daily basis thereafter. He/She also teaches medical students and evaluates students and senior residents.

Senior Resident

A second or third year resident assigned to a medical floor supervises, teaches, and evaluates the interns, sub-interns, and medical students. He/She is the primary resource of the entire floor team for both academic and patient care related issues.

Senior of the House

Each day, the 10/11 Kellogg senior resident on-call is appointed to be the senior of the house. They are responsible for responding to all code situations in the hospital (with the exception of the SICU or pediatric codes).

Student

Third year Rush medical students have a twelve-week rotation in Internal Medicine. Four weeks of the rotation are spent on one of the general medical floors. Students are expected to be on call every fourth night and to participate in patient care under the supervision of the housestaff. In addition, there are separate educational activities scheduled for third year students.

Sub-intern

Fourth year medical students function in an intern’s role under the direct supervision of a senior resident. All orders written by a sub-intern must be co-signed by a floor resident. In addition there are separate educational activities for sub-I’s.

Chief Residents

	Left to Right: Richard Olstein, MD, Mahesh Raju, MD, Liza Yambay, MD and Jeffrey Pua, MD.

The Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center at Chicago, Illinois is one of more than 400 U.S. Internal Medicine residency programs, 120 of which are university programs. Our program is one of the 20 largest. The six chief residency positions, four at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and two at Rush North Shore Medical Center, are highly competitive and require a commitment to an additional year of training at the PGY 4 level.

Chief Resident duties include:

• Acting as a liason between residents and administration
• 6 weeks of attending internist on the RUI service
• Teaching pathophysiology to medical students
• Running morning report and other conferences
• Participating in various hospital-wide committees
• Participating in the interview screening process