{"id":2001,"date":"2017-12-11T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/?page_id=2001"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:23:53","slug":"program-descriptions-preliminary-medicine-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/internal-medicine-residency-program\/program-descriptions-preliminary-medicine-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Descriptions: Preliminary Medicine Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Preliminary Medicine Program at the University of Connecticut has always been fully integrated into the Internal Medicine Program. The Preliminary interns work side-by-side with all other Medicine Program residents, rotate through the same hospitals, and are taught by the same faculty. This program is a competitive and academically challenging year, rich in core rotations and electives. It is flexible enough to allow you to individualize your first year of residency and offers a foundation on which to build your career. We emphasize evidence-based Medicine, clinical problem-solving, and the scientific method.<\/p>\n

Curriculum<\/h3>\n

The preliminary year curriculum is identical in scope and depth to the Internal Medicine Residency Program\u2019s PGY1 year. The block schedule follows a 4+2+2 model and allows all preliminary residents to meet their ACGME requirements. You will be offered four to five electives depending on your future specialty, 8 weeks of critical care medicine, 4 weeks of night float and 14 weeks of wards. Additionally, you will have a recurring ambulatory experience during which you will take care of patients requiring urgent care or seen in a sub-specialty clinic.<\/p>\n

The first year of all Internal Medicine Programs has the same unique experiences, including opportunities in scholarly activities, personal and professional development, and the Clinical Skills Program. Please refer to our\u00a0Program Highlights<\/a>\u00a0section.<\/p>\n

Rotation Schedule<\/h3>\n

Our program runs on a block schedule model following 4+2+2.<\/p>\n

Weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
X<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nX<\/td>\nZ<\/td>\nZ<\/td>\nY<\/td>\nY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

X blocks consist of call rotations (wards\/critical care)
\nY blocks are ambulatory experience
\nZ consist of electives and vacation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Preliminary Medicine Program at the University of Connecticut has always been fully integrated into the Internal Medicine Program. The Preliminary interns work side-by-side with all other Medicine Program residents, rotate through the same hospitals, and are taught by the same faculty. This program is a competitive and academically challenging year, rich in core rotations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"parent":1983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 04:49:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39774,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions\/39774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}