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The
medical inpatient service consists of subspecialty wards and general medicine
wards in the UNC Hospitals. There are 7 subspecialty services; Cardiology
(including CCU), GI, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary,
Renal, Neurology and 2 General Medicine services. In addition, there is
a separate Medical Intensive Care/Respiratory Intensive Care Unit rotation.
Each ward team consists of
an Attending, a PGY 2 or PGY 3 resident, 2 PGY 1 residents and 1-2 medical
students. For the subspecialty services, the Attending comes from
that subspecialty. On-call duties are every fourth night. There
is a cap of 5 admissions per call day. These occur between 8am-11pm.
After 11pm, all admissions are taken by a Night Float resident. There
is no short call system.
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