Presbyterian CCU Inpatient Rotation

 

Location:

3^rd floor of Wright-Saunders Building, Presbyterian Medical Center

 

Setup of Rotation:

There are three teams in the CCU consisting of one upper-level internal medicine resident and one intern (internal medicine, transitional, preliminary or FP) each. The teams rotate call every third night. There is also a cardiology fellow and cardiology attending available and that is who you round with. You will be assigned to one of the teams and take call every third night. You might be an “extra” intern on your team (that is good!J) or you might be the only intern with one upper level resident.

Attending rounds are at 8.30am, so you should finish pre-rounding before then. You can print your notes through the medview computer system accessed via your login and available on every computer. You will be assigned to one of the teams and take call every third night. On pre-call and post-call days, you are usually out by noon. You usually get every 6^th day off – this is always a pre-call day. Your upper level resident takes the other pre-call day off. On one of your pre-call days you will also have your continuity PFC clinic.

 

Computer Systems:

Sunrise: this is used to put in all orders, check results, meds etc.

 

Medview (including sign-out): this is used to see more extensive records on a patient. Also this is how you will sign-in/sign-out. Go to housestaff, then signout, then select your name, and you will see your sign out sheet. You and your resident share the responsibility of keeping the signout up-to-date. To print it, go to “view as Microsoft word document”, then print. You can see anyone’s signout sheet by searching under their name.   You will also be able to print your notes out through Medview. After signing in, click “my notes” tab and you will be able pull up pre-made notes including medications and recent lab values for patients assigned to you. 

 

Presby-cards: Here is where you can access all cardiology reports on a patient including echo, EKG, cath lab reports. Website is http://pmc-card.uphs.upenn.edu

 

Geocities.com/pennmedicine: this is a link where you can find pager numbers on EVERYONE in the internal medicine department.

 

Magicweb: this is where all the radiology images are.  This system automatically interfaces with Medview.

 

Charts:

Same as Internal Medicine inpatient service. There is also a bedside vitals chart which is updated hourly.

Call rooms:

6^th floor of the Wright Saunders building, only accessible by the Saunders elevators which are adjacent to the cafeteria.  There is a CCU intern call room. There are also Medicine A/B call rooms which usually have a spare bed in them.

 

**Of note, if you are an EXTRA intern in the CCU, then you will not be able to sleep in the CCU intern room, as the other intern will be in there. Use one of the medicine intern call rooms, both of which have bunk beds in them. 

Parking:

1. On non-call days, park in the Powelton/39^th Street lot

2. On call-days, park your car in the covered Presbyterian lot that patients/visitors use. Pull a ticket as you go in. When you leave the next day, you affix a parking validation sticker on the back and give it to the attendant as you leave. Your parking should be totally free.

3. On weekends you can park in the covered Presbyterian lot anytime and just swipe your presby ID to get in and out.

4. On weekdays you can also park in the covered Presbyterian lot after 2pm and be out by 9am. Again, use your presby ID to get in and out.

5. The parking validation stickers are available in the internal medicine administrative office on the first floor of Presbyterian main building. Talk to Kathy the administrative assistant to get the stickers.

Cafeteria:

Meal tickets are available for on-call days. You get $7 for dinner and $4 for breakfast. Make sure you use up all the money, as you don’t get change from the ticket. The tickets are available in the internal medicine administrative office on the first floor of Presbyterian main building. Talk to Kathy the administrative assistant to get the tickets. Lunch is sometimes free in the medicine conference room – you will usually be mass-paged if there is a lunch.