Year One Curriculum

Transitional Year

The first year of residency is conducted almost exclusively at the Sanford Health Medical Center in Fargo, N.D.  Our schedule is composed of 13, four-week block rotations.  We pride ourselves in offering numerous elective blocks, to allow each resident to tailor their education to their own learning goals and objectives.  A sample schedule can be found below.

Sample Rotation Schedule

ACGME Neurology program requirements (4.11.b) states, in programs offering a 48-month format, the first year of the program must provide broad clinical experiences in general medicine and include at least one of the following:

4.11.b.1. - Eight months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care; or,

4.11.b.2 - Six months in internal medicine with primary responsibility in patient care, and a period of at least two months comprising one or more months of pediatrics, emergency medicine, internal medicine, or family medicine.

• Block 1: Team Based Inpatient Internal Medicine
• Block 2: Night Medicine (8pm-8am)/Research & Scholarly Activity (PBLI) - 2 weeks of each
• Block 3: Team Based Inpatient Internal Medicine
• Block 4: Elective
• Block 5: Critical Care Medicine (ICU)
• Block 6: Elective
• Block 7: Team Based Inpatient Internal Medicine
• Block 8: Elective
• Block 9: Team Based Inpatient Internal Medicine
• Block 10: Internal Medicine Ambulatory (140 hours)
• Block 11: Emergency Medicine (140 hours)
• Block 12: Elective
• Block 13: Team Based Inpatient Internal Medicine

Available Electives

• Cardiology
• Critical Care
• Endocrinology
• Infectious Disease
• Neurology
• Pain Clinic
• Palliative Care 
• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)
• Procedures – Point of Care Ultrasound Training
• Research 
• Rheumatology