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DESCRIPTION OF INPATIENT CLINICAL ROTATIONS

Each academic year is divided into thirteen 4-week block rotations. The three-year calendar looks like this:
Rotation Number of blocks/year
  PGY1 PGY2 PGY3 Hospitalist Track PGY3 Ambulatory Track
Inpatient medicine 4 2 2 1
Critical care medicine 2.5 1 1 0.5
Neurology 0.5 - - -
Step down unit at MGH - 1 - -
Emergency medicine 0.5 - - -
Day float/emergency medicine - 0.5 1.5 1
Night rotations        
 Night intern 0.5 - - -
 Night PGY2 * - 1.5 - -
 Night PGY3 * - - 1.5 1.5
Mental health and addictions 1 - - -
Geriatrics * - 1 - -
Elective * 1 4 4.5 4.5
Ambulatory 2 2 2 4
Ambulatory teaching resident - - 0.5 0.5
Vacation 1 (1) * (1) * (1) *
Total blocks 13 13 13 13

* PGY2 and 3 residents choose a month of vacation time from one or more of the following rotations: night float, geriatrics, and elective.