Core Rotations

Curriculum

• Residents are off-service for 7 blocks of the year.
• Below, you will find a sample schedule for all off-service rotations.

• Residents work with surgeons from Evansville Surgical Associates.
• 1 on 1 with the surgeon during surgery, rounds and clinic.
• Residents often “scrub in” and assist the surgeon.

• Residents rotate with surgeons from Orthopaedic Associates.
• Learn about treatment of common orthopedic injuries.
• Spend time with the surgeon during surgery.
• Gain valuable experience learning how to treat common orthopedic injuries and how to perform joint and trigger point injections.

• Residents rotate with cardiologists in the inpatient setting.
• Exposed to multiple cardiac procedures including cardiac catheterizations, treadmill tests, stress echocardiograms, dobutamine stress echocardiograms and transesophageal echocardiograms.  Residents also evaluate inpatient consults and develop a management plan prior to discussing with the attending cardiologist.
• Also gain experience reading and discussing EKGs.
   

• Residents rotate through the ED during their first and third years of residency.
• Rotations are split between Deaconess Midtown Hospital ED (Level 2 Trauma Center) and Deaconess Gateway Hospital ED.
• Residents are given an opportunity to manage patients throughout their stay in the ED.
• Residents are encouraged to see a wide variety of patients and often get opportunities to perform procedures like intubation, suturing, replacing PEG tubes and bandaging injuries.