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Inpatient Rotations

Inpatient rotations take place at one of our 3 hospital sites: UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and UC San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla.


UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest

Hillcrest Wards team

Ward rotations

  • Five daytime teams rotate in a call cycle
  • Dedicated non-teach service that functions as an overflow service
  • Team members: 1 hospitalist attending, 1 resident, 2 interns, and 1–3 third- or fourth-year medical students
  • Night-float system:
    • 1 cross-cover intern and 1 intern dedicated to night admissions
    • 1 senior resident assists with admissions and supports cross-cover
    • 1 admitting nocturnist who staffs all overnight admissions
MICU team

Medical ICU (MICU) Rotation

  • Closed ICU caring for critically ill patients
  • MICU team: 4 residents, 4 interns, 1 critical care fellow, and 1 attending
  • Residents learn to manage vasoactive drips, mechanical ventilation, and multiorgan failure and perform procedures
  • Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts
  • Team members respond to all Code Blue situations called in the hospital

VA San Diego Healthcare System

Ward rotations

  • Five daytime teams rotate in a call cycle
  • Dedicated non-teach service that functions as an overflow service
  • Team members: 1 hospitalist attending, 1 resident, 2 interns, and 1–3 third- or fourth-year medical students
  • Night-float system:
    • 1 cross-cover intern and 1 intern dedicated to night admissions
    • 1 senior resident assists with admissions and supports cross-cover
    • 1 admitting nocturnist who staffs all overnight admissions
VA Wards team pose with one leg forward

VA San Diego ICU/CCU (VICU) rotation

  • Combined inpatient cardiology and pulmonary & critical care service
  • VICU team: 4 residents, 2 interns, 1 critical care fellow, 1 cardiology fellow, 1 pulmonary and critical care attending, and 1 cardiology attending
  • Residents learn the fundamentals of pulmonary and critical care medicine and inpatient and critical care cardiology
  • Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts for senior residents. Interns will not take 28-hour call
  • Team members respond to all Code Blue situations called in the hospital

UC San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla

Ali and Priya taking a selfie with a cup of Philz coffee

Ward rotations

  • Internal medicine service at Jacobs Medical Center for senior residents
  • Residents work one-on-one with an academic hospitalist attending
  • "Admitter -rounder" system:
    • Dedicated admissions team with a resident and physician extenders
    • Several "rounder" teams with dedicated clinical foci: solid tumor oncology, cystic fibrosis, palliation
CVC team holding up hands in heart form

Inpatient Cardiology/CCU rotation at Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (CVC)

  • Cares for all inpatient cardiology and ICU-level cardiology patients at the CVC
  • CVC team: 4 residents, 4 interns, 1 fellow, and 1 attending
  • Residents manage a variety of complex cardiac pathology, including acute coronary syndrome, complex arrhythmias, valvular disorders, and percutaneous interventions
  • Residents work closely with dedicated advanced heart failure, interventional cardiology, and electrophysiology teams
  • Call schedule includes both night float and 28-hour call shifts

Inpatient Elective Rotations

At each of our 3 hospital sites, subspecialty inpatient and consultative rotations expose residents to advanced endoscopy, mechanical assist devices, post-transplant infectious diseases, advanced pulmonary hypertension, and solid tumor and hematologic malignancy care, among other topics.

Available elective consultation services include:

  • Cardiology
  • Advanced heart failure and mechanical assist devices
  • Gastroenterology and hepatology
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Bone marrow transplantation
  • General, hematology/oncology, and transplant-related infectious diseases
  • HIV/AIDS
  • General and transplant nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Neurocritical care
  • Palliative Care
  • Psychiatry
  • Pulmonology
  • Pulmonary and critical care
  • Pulmonary hypertension (including CTEPH)
  • Toxicology