Teaching Responsibilities

Residents act as a team in patient care during their hospital rotation. There are tiers of responsibility on the hospital wards. The first year resident is responsible for the direct medical care of the patient. The second and third year residents have a supervisory role over a team of first year residents and medical students. Overseeing the team is the attending physician. This hierarchy of teaching and responsibility breeds an environment of learning and discovery. The unique balance of complex diseases and common illnesses at our hospital fosters the development of a broad medical knowledge base with a keen sense of clinical acumen. 

We are excited that The Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Case Western Reserve University have formed a new medical education and research program. The new Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine of CWRU will enroll its first entering class in 2004 and will prepare physicians and scientists dedicated to advancing biomedical research and practice. The college will admit students from a national and international pool of applicants.

In addition, medical students from Hershey Medical College of the Pennsylvania State University serve as third and fourth year clerks on The Children's Hospital ward service. During their clerkships, they also rotate through the general pediatric outpatient area, as well as in the subspecialty clinics. In addition to the resident noon conference schedule, there are special conferences provided for the students. Fourth year students from variety of medical schools, also serve as acting interns on the ward service. Our residents fulfill an important role in the teaching and supervision of ward medical students.

Fourth-year students from other medical schools serve as acting interns on the ward service and rotate throughout the subspecialties as electives.

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