Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
Thank you for choosing Ochsner Health for your care. We are committed to making an ongoing difference in the health of our communities.
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Ochsner is committed to a clinically-integrated research program with the ultimate goal of improving the health and wellness of our patients and communities. And as the largest academic medical center in Louisiana, we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals to be leaders who can meet evolving healthcare challenges.
Ochsner's Internal Medicine Residency Program is committed to the education of its residents and, to this end, offers a wide variety of conferences complementing the clinical experience to developed well rounded physicians regardless of future practice.
Intern year can be hard—it’s hectic, and there is a huge amount of information to learn. Thankfully, we make it easier by protecting an afternoon every week dedicated to helping you build a strong foundation of knowledge. Components include:
As advanced learners, residents should receive the advanced teaching they deserve. By protecting a weekly block for upper-level residents, we’re able to provide a diverse curriculum, including:
Outpatient medicine requires its own specialized knowledge base. Our ambulatory faculty have created dedicated morning sessions for our residents during their clinic weeks.
There’s no substitute for learning from the complex cases we care for every day. Having a structured forum to work through our residents’ most interesting cases helps hone the clinical thought process and bridges the gap between didactic learning and clinical experience.
Built into our subspecialty rotations are opportunities for didactic experiences that expose our residents to the finer points of each field. This includes our critical care curriculum, fellow lectures, tumor board, pathology and imaging review conferences, emergency medicine lectures, and more.
From presentations on active research to palliative care discussions to special guest lecturers speaking on a broad array of topics, our residents benefit from exposure to a variety of system-wide lectures and workshops on an ongoing basis.
Several evenings throughout the year we gather as a program to discuss the articles underlying the care we provide and research we conduct. In addition, we hold a debate using the available evidence to argue two sides of a pertinent medical question in the field highlighted in each session. All this, plus food and drinks!
We utilize our state of the art simulation center every ambulatory block to help you develop and hone the skills necessary for clinical success. This includes sessions focused on procedural skills, management of urgent and emergent patient situations, communication and difficult conversations, and ACLS training.
Led by our third-year residents, our monthly MM&I conference goes beyond the standard analysis of a single case with a poor outcome and dives deeper into the system issues and potential fixes lying at the root of the problem. The background work our residents are involved in often leads to important process changes and improved patient outcomes throughout Ochsner.
A companion to the traditional MM&I conference, the Amazing and Awesome (A&A) conference focuses on cases where positive outcomes occur despite high probability of adverse events. The conference involves taking a deep dive into the case with a multidisciplinary panel of experts to identify the individual behaviors and system processes that helped achieve the outcome to encourage personal growth and improvement in patient safety.
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