Day in the Life of a Resident
General Inpatient Schedule
- 06:00 AM – 06:30 AM: Residents arrive at the hospital and begin pre-charting on their patients. Stop at the favorite Hospital watering hole, Higher Grounds, for an Americano on the way to the wards.
- 06:30 AM: Receive sign-out from night residents about overnight admissions in our Resident Library (affectionately known to residents as the ‘Res Lib’)
- 07:00 AM – 08:30 AM: Bedside pre-rounding with medical students, interns, and residents (general medicine teams consist of a combination of 1-2 medical students, 1-2 interns, and 1 upper-level resident per team)
- 08:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Formal rounding with attending and entire team. Structure varies; some combination of table rounding and walk rounding.
- 10:30 AM: Case Management Rounds for discharge barriers
- 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Get work done calling consults, writing notes, updating families. Quick educational chalk talks with team Attendings and upper-level residents often happen during this time.
- 12:00 PM – 13:30 PM: Noon Conference, Monday-Friday, with educational lectures and clinical cases led by core and guest faculty speakers on a variety of internal medicine, subspecialty, and non-medicine topics. Food from local catering options (Guajiros, Roots, Box’d, etc.) provided Monday-Thursday to accommodate learning while feeding our hard-working residents!
- 16:00 PM: Earliest time to sign over patient lists to the call team, if all work is completed. Once signed out, head out to enjoy the beautiful Charlottesville weather at a local brewery with friends, on a nearby trail enjoying the lovely Shenandoah Mountains, or cheering on the Hoos at one of UVA’s well-attended sporting events.
- 16:00 PM – 20:00 PM: If on call (every 4th day on General Medicine service), will cover non-call team lists and admit patients to general medicine services.
- 20:00 PM – 07:00 AM: Night Team (comprised of 3 interns, 2 upper-level residents) cross-covers for general medicine residents, attends to rapid response alerts and Codes, and admits patients to general medicine service.