Medical Ward Teams versus Separate Teams Covering Medical Critical Care Units

New and innovative attempts at restructuring internal medicine residencies have been contemplated and started in an effort to meet the needs of trainees [1,2]. One question we have wrestled with is the relative value of having a system where house officer ward teams follow their patients in the critical care unit versus house officer critical care teams that are separate from ward teams. We undertook a study to try to ascertain the degree of use of each system. Although such a study does